Separation of Science and State

[Apollo]

There are three fundamental pillars of a society that always interplay: Knowledge, governance, and behavior. Knowledge is basically science—knowing the nature of things (time and space, and manifestations of laws of nature) and use that to survive.

Governance and behavior (collective level) too work best when they are informed by knowledge. Why? Because it allows to make optimal decisions.

Religion is a primitive form of “science”— a lot of strategic guess work based on little known facts about nature—mainly what we could experience through senses. It is no longer relevant in our world as it can no longer provide satisfactory explanation of the reality. Using it to make decisions in modern world is like using clay tablets to keep financial records.

Religion is hardly a primitive form of science.   It is a form of governance that is without knowledge but nonetheless pretend to be informed.

Religion is many things for sure—framework to define and enforce moral code (governance) etc—but first and foremost it is a discipline that makes claims—claims rooted in reality as it sees it. This is similar to making deductive inferences and forming hypothesis and theories.

Existence of god, afterlife, causal relationships between deeds and calamities etc (sins) are all hypothesis and theories that develop the basis on which religion further concocts social moral code and laws etc.