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Science Vs God
Science doubled your life because it could; God made hell because he loves you.
Two thousand years ago, religion was a thing. Today, if we want to call ourselves intelligent species, religious people should be a minority at best. Is it true, though? Are we really so clever if we believe in a man-made God? We have the 21st century now, and science and technology have advanced far enough to conclude that a God is a primitive and short-sighted idea. With its acceptance of slavery, rape and murder, the bible is one of the oldest jokes on humanity in history. “In God, we trust” on US dollars is absurd. It’s not God who took us to the moon; science has.
Throughout the centuries, science was attracting humans attention. This is because questioning our surrounding world and exploring new avenues is in our nature. But, unfortunately, my best guess would be for survival reasons; we feel an urge to trust someone who has an authority overlooking our affairs, leading us to one of the most significant crimes of all — religion.
Religion, designed to contain and manipulate simple, uneducated masses, slows down the process of scientific development for centuries…