Oh c’mon, you’re making it appear like you just want to pick on religious people as the only ones who can fall prey to the clutches of ideology. While for sure there is no disease called “scientism”, there are a bunch of men and some but far fewer women, all of whom have very human psychologies, some with oppressive tendencies and fanatical adherence to their own “worldviews”.

Honest question; do you really think it is helpful to always posit this question in the frame of “religion versus science”? I have found that it does little to help promote scientific thinking to those more inclined with religious views and only gathers those within the scientific community who “hate” religion to all have their little tribal tit for tat between them and the “others”.

I’m always hoping that the more scientific minded crowd will approach this more rationally and less dualistically. Turning science into a weapon in a culture was has set western society back I am afraid, not forward.