An excellent OP, but I think that excluding science as a religion is going to be pretty quick work.
If I drop a rock anywhere on the surface of this planet, it is going to fall at 9.8 m/s/s.
If I drop a rock anywhere on the surface of this planet, it is going to fall at 9.8 m/s/s, not matter how hard I pray that it does otherwise.
Boru
If I drop a rock anywhere on the surface of this planet, it is going to fall at 9.8 m/s/s.
If I drop a rock anywhere on the surface of this planet, it is going to fall at 9.8 m/s/s, not matter how hard I pray that it does otherwise.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson