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Originally Posted by Adam  Wouldn't the same group of people also use science to justify their atrocious acts? I can think of a time period where researchers where doing amazingly vile experiments in the name of science... the Holocaust.
Limiting people's possible choices for beliefs will do nothing to bring peace; it can only increase their sense of captivity. |
You are distressingly mistaken. First of all the Holocaust was the result of Hitler's Nazi regime, and was certainly
not undertaken in the name of rational - logical science. He may have used scientists to conduct vile experiments, but I'm not saying there are no immoral scientists. It was perhaps their personal choice to conduct those experiments (although I doubt they had much choice in the matter), although critically, they cannot claim guidance from a divine 'god of science' who told them to conduct vile experiments - unless they're delusional.
However, there are literally millions of anecdotes detailing the horrifying acts of extreme violence committed in the name of religion. I need not go in to them here.
Finally, science far from limits people's choices, it instead opens them up to a fascinating world of discovery and truth. Whereas religious absolutism limits people's choices to the dogmatic words of scripture. For example, some religions regard homosexuality as unholy and punishable by death. And Catholics regard contraception as sinful, and instead preach some unreliable rhythm method. How is that not limiting?