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Religion And Science, An Inevitable Pair

The discussion of Religion and Science was extremely fascinating for me. It is so interesting to look at the parallels of religion and how much science has changed the course of religion.

Before science, religion was an aspect of human life that was blindly followed. People devoted their whole lives to making sure they follow the rules of the bible. Every action/decision they made was influenced by the hope and desire to go to Heaven in the after life. The fear of burning for all eternity made people scared to stir off from what was known.

The Scientific Revolution made people question, with reasonable doubt,  if religion was true. People were able to discover that the earth circled the sun and not the other way around. Humans were not the most important planet, which made people wonder what else they were wrong about. Individuals like Copernicus and Galileo were silenced by fear or tortured for there discoveries.

People also started to become more literate which allowed them to read the bible themselves, and create there own interpretation of what religion truly was.

I was also shocked to know how many different religions spread so quickly. People took the basics of religion and manipulated it to fit their own desires as well. For example, Prince Vladimir spread the ideology of Islamic beliefs, but named it Orthodox Christianity to conform to the fact that Russians love to drink alcohol.

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