(November 15, 2020 at 9:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Determining how things are as opposed to asserting how they should be. Science concerns itself with the former, religion is defined by the latter.
No, religion deals with first and foremost with claims of existence of god and afterlife—it is able to make such claims by deductively thinking and further hypothesizing causal relationship between natural phenomenon—kind of claims or reasoning that we now use science to make.