Yeah, true. But fucking Thor is much more badass than Yahweh. Yahweh is too shy to even show his face to those who disavow toast. Thor has a hammer. Science is not based on Cartesian Logic. Thats Descartes.

Science is based on empirical evidence and theories based on such empirical data collected from standardized real-world situations.

Philosophy attempts to find truth for/from internal speculation and logistical loops.

Spirituality searches for higher answers in personally vindicating ways and often focuses on abstractions and personally rewarding sensational experience.

Religion retards all of these above.

Many of us here have had similar experiences to those described by Jesus when he's not in the middle of an arrogant, socio pathological, megalomaniacal rant about killing your neighbor for working on Saturday.

And religion is supposed to be 'immune' from criticism?
Science brought us vaccines and religion brought us honor killings and witch-hunts. I'm sure many have felt true spiritual bliss from what they count as religion. But being a reformed Christian, I have the right as you would to say the joys are just as well and rewarding, and most certainly clearer, when you allow your thinking to be free.

Once again, this is not a personal attack. My way of 'touching god' whatever the fuck that means lands me in jail while religious ways of talking to god ignores real problems. Due credit, science saves lives. Religion ends them. This is indisputable regardless of one's ability to disregard their own reality, and any other profess is dangerously ignorant in a society where an extremist country can build a hydrogen bomb!

~Monk