When religion was in charge, it did its best to squash anything that would be contrary to Scripture, things like the sun revolving around the earth was quite popular (in a recent poll, there are stil a lot of people, in the double digits, who still believe that). People were imprisoned, ruined, or worse for having dangerous ideas.
Now that the Church cannot do these things, you still have religion pushing itself to stop science, but with little effect. Stem cell research, comes to mind as well as trying to force their religious beliefs by renaming it "Intelligent Design", which fools nobody. There's more.
Now you do have very devout religious people in the sciences who do not hold that way. So maybe it isn't about religion as much as the mouth breathers that would picket "God hates Fags" by a funeral of a gay person.
Now that the Church cannot do these things, you still have religion pushing itself to stop science, but with little effect. Stem cell research, comes to mind as well as trying to force their religious beliefs by renaming it "Intelligent Design", which fools nobody. There's more.
Now you do have very devout religious people in the sciences who do not hold that way. So maybe it isn't about religion as much as the mouth breathers that would picket "God hates Fags" by a funeral of a gay person.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
