True on that last part, though there has been a push to try and make science and religion mutually exclusive as if one cannot exist with the other. Take Cid's game Civilization V for instance. "Reason" and "Piety" cannot be held in the same culture.
Obviously this might have been for game balance purposes to make one focus on either science victory or culture victory, but the implications are also clear. A culture cannot be both pious and rational. Which seems to be part of the conflict I've been seeing between the religious and a-religious these days. The a-religious are being tought that one cannot be scientific if they are religious. And ironically the religious are also being taught that nothing of worth can be produced by the a-relgious because their ultimate goal is to destroy god.
Thus through both side's misconceptions of that comes the ever increasing conflict. Did not mean to imply that it was not in occurrence today.
True on that last part, though there has been a push to try and make science and religion mutually exclusive as if one cannot exist with the other. Take Cid's game Civilization V for instance. "Reason" and "Piety" cannot be held in the same culture.
Obviously this might have been for game balance purposes to make one focus on either science victory or culture victory, but the implications are also clear. A culture cannot be both pious and rational. Which seems to be part of the conflict I've been seeing between the religious and a-religious these days. The a-religious are being tought that one cannot be scientific if they are religious. And ironically the religious are also being taught that nothing of worth can be produced by the a-relgious because their ultimate goal is to destroy god.
Thus through both side's misconceptions of that comes the ever increasing conflict. Did not mean to imply that it was not in occurrence today.