SCIENCE IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF RELIGION
- Madhukar Dama
- 7 hours ago
- 8 min read
The priest became the professor, the temple became the lab, and blind faith never left the building
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INTRODUCTION: RELIGION NEVER DIED—IT EVOLVED
Science did not replace religion.
It simply inherited its architecture.
The robes changed. The vocabulary changed.
But the behavior, the authority, the blind submission—it remained intact.
Where religion controlled humans through myth and fear,
modern science now controls them through data and regulation.
The altar was replaced by the lab bench.
The scripture by the peer-reviewed journal.
And the unquestionable god by the “expert consensus.”
Science is not free of faith. It is faith, in a new uniform.
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PART 1: IDENTICAL STRUCTURES, IDENTICAL STRATEGIES
Religion and science use the same institutional frameworks for power and obedience.
Religion has supreme authorities like priests and popes. Science has professors, PhDs, and research chairs.
Religion speaks in sacred languages like Sanskrit, Latin, or Arabic. Science speaks in mathematical notation, coded jargon, and inaccessible technical terms.
Religion conducts rituals—prayer, fasting, confession—to align the soul. Science conducts lab protocols, sterile procedures, and funding cycles to align research.
Religion labels dissent as heresy. Science labels dissent as misinformation.
Religion promises salvation in heaven. Science promises salvation in longevity, AI, and bioengineering.
Religion threatens with hell and sin. Science threatens with infection, disease, and isolation.
Religion builds temples and churches. Science builds labs, institutions, and universities.
Nothing changed but the symbols. The human behavior stayed the same.
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PART 2: BELIEF WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING
People once repeated scripture they didn’t understand.
Now they repeat phrases like “studies show” or “it’s peer-reviewed” without ever reading or verifying anything.
They have not understood the method.
They have memorized the ritual.
They do not question assumptions.
They submit to authority.
Quoting scientific consensus without comprehension is no different from quoting divine commandments.
This is not critical thinking.
It is obedience cloaked in sophistication.
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PART 3: SCIENCE ENFORCES FAITH IN INSTITUTIONS
Religion made you dependent on priests to access divine truth.
Science has made you dependent on experts to access bodily truth.
You now believe: – Your fever is meaningless unless a thermometer says it
– Your tiredness is nothing until a lab test validates it
– Your healing is invalid without a prescription
Like religion, science trains you to doubt your senses, mistrust your body, and surrender to external authority.
It replaces your internal compass with external measurements.
It tells you:
> “You are not qualified to know anything about yourself without us.”
That is not empowerment.
That is modern submission.
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PART 4: SCIENCE PUNISHES HERESY
Religions once burned people for questioning dogma.
Science now destroys reputations, careers, and visibility for the same reason.
Question vaccines? You’re labeled anti-science.
Question pharma-funded trials? You’re accused of spreading misinformation.
Question mainstream nutrition? You’re silenced as pseudoscientific.
The scientist who questions his peers becomes an outcast.
The healer who cures outside the system is banned.
The mother who trusts instinct over protocol is shamed.
This is not open inquiry.
This is the new inquisition.
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PART 5: SCIENCE SELLS SALVATION—JUST LIKE RELIGION
Religion sold entry to heaven through donations, rituals, and submission.
Science now sells a secular heaven—immortality, genetic perfection, digital transcendence—through AI, pills, and plastic surgery.
You are told: – You can beat death through cryonics
– You can reverse aging through billion-dollar startups
– You can cure the world through synthetic biology
But only if you pay.
Only if you comply.
Only if you stay in the system.
Science has become a trillion-dollar priesthood promising salvation through products.
And just like religion, it punishes anyone who achieves healing or clarity outside the paywall.
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PART 6: SCIENCE EXCLUDES WHAT IT CAN’T MEASURE
If it cannot be measured, it is declared irrelevant.
Love, intuition, ancestral knowledge, traditional wisdom, spiritual insight, nature-based logic—
if these cannot be digitized, analyzed, or patented,
they are labeled unscientific.
And then discarded.
What religion once called “pagan,” science now calls “pseudoscience.”
The attitude is identical:
If it doesn’t serve the institution, it must be burned.
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PART 7: TRUE SCIENCE IS DEAD—WHAT REMAINS IS DOGMA
Science once meant observing nature, testing hypotheses, and correcting errors.
Today, it means securing grants, citing sponsors, pleasing reviewers, and conforming to intellectual trends.
The original scientists—those who observed bees, plants, stars, rivers—worked with humility.
Now the system rewards those who publish, patent, and promote.
Science has stopped asking:
> “What’s true?”
And now asks:
“What can we sell?”
“What can we control?”
“What can we extract?”
This is not evolution.
This is institutionalized deceit in academic costume.
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PART 8: MODERN FEAR IS THE NEW HELL
Religion made people fear sin, hell, dishonor, and divine punishment.
Science now makes people fear: – Disease
– Contagion
– Disorder
– Death
– And not “being informed”
You are taught to fear: – Your own body
– Nature
– People without credentials
– Opinions not peer-reviewed
Fear has not left the building.
It simply moved from the temple to the clinic.
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PART 9: FAITH AND LOGIC — TWO MASKS ON THE SAME FACE
People believe religion is built on faith, and science on logic.
But dig deep enough, and you’ll find both are human constructs shaped by fear, ego, and control.
Faith in Religion:
Religious faith demands belief without evidence.
You are told to trust: – Holy books written centuries ago
– Stories passed down through filtered translations
– Interpretations controlled by clergy and power hierarchies
You are warned: – Do not question
– Do not think
– Just obey and be saved
Faith, in this model, is not trust. It is surrender to someone else’s version of truth.
Logic in Science:
Scientific logic is glorified as objective.
But in practice, it’s: – Funded by interested parties
– Filtered by what can be measured
– Interpreted through assumptions, models, and statistics
– Policed by institutions with reputations to protect
Most scientific “logic” rests on unstated beliefs: – That nature can be reduced to numbers
– That future predictions can be made from narrow models
– That knowledge is superior only when published, peer-reviewed, and cited
Both faith and logic rely on the same human brain with its cognitive biases, tribal instincts, status-seeking, and fear of uncertainty.
They both: – Build systems of obedience
– Reward hierarchy
– Reject dissent
– Operate through institutions
– Claim exclusive access to “truth”
And both collapse when you remove the institution behind them.
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THE TRUTH: BOTH ARE CONTROL MECHANISMS
Faith tells you, “Don’t ask questions.”
Science tells you, “You can ask questions—but only within our framework.”
Both lead to domesticated minds.
Faith punishes doubt.
Logic punishes intuition.
Faith says: “God will save you.”
Logic says: “We will save you—eventually—once the funding comes through.”
In the end, both systems are built on the same foundation: – Language you don’t understand
– Structures you don’t control
– People you’re trained to trust
– Fears you’re too numb to face alone
So whether you kneel in a temple
or wait for your test results in a lab—
you are in the same posture:
submissive to a human-made system
that demands belief and punishes truth.
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CONCLUSION: SCIENCE DIDN’T FREE US—IT TOOK THE CROWN FROM RELIGION
Let’s be clear.
This is not a critique of observation, reasoning, or genuine inquiry.
This is a critique of institutional science, which has become a faith-based mechanism of control.
True science seeks liberation.
But modern science reinforces dependency.
True science simplifies.
Modern science entangles.
True science empowers the ordinary.
Modern science creates untouchable elites.
Religion told you you were broken unless the priest said otherwise.
Science now tells you you’re broken unless the expert says otherwise.
The god changed.
The fear remained.
Science is not the opposite of religion.
It is its obedient successor.
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SCIENCE IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF RELIGION
A poem about two masks, one mouth, and the god they both serve: Control.
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they switched the robe for a coat,
the altar for a lab bench,
the incense for bleach,
but the tone of voice—
that didn’t change.
“kneel,”
they said before,
and you did.
“trust us,”
they say now,
and you still do.
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the priest said,
“you are born sinful.”
the scientist says,
“you are born defective.”
the priest said,
“your body is temptation.”
the doctor says,
“your body is a ticking time bomb.”
the priest said,
“you need us to reach salvation.”
the doctor says,
“you need us to stay alive.”
and both will smile
while selling you the cure
to a disease they invented.
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they wore gold crosses once.
now they wear white coats.
they had Latin chants once.
now they chant in data.
they warned of hell before.
now they warn of hospital beds,
ventilators,
and viruses
with names too long to question.
both promise peace.
both sell fear.
and both require obedience.
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question the priest?
you’re a heretic.
question the scientist?
you’re a conspiracy theorist.
same punishment.
different branding.
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they speak of peer review
like priests once spoke of divine revelation.
no miracles without approval.
no truth without paperwork.
you want to fast to heal?
that’s unscientific.
you want to walk barefoot on soil?
that’s superstition.
you want to trust your gut?
they say,
“show us a randomized control trial first.”
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your ancestors gave birth in huts.
now you can’t breathe without a monitor.
they’ve colonized your breath.
they’ve annexed your pain.
they’ve copyrighted your body
and trademarked your healing.
and every time you want to say,
“i feel it,”
they reply,
“prove it.”
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religion made you confess.
science makes you disclose.
religion made you tithe.
science makes you subscribe.
religion made you wait for afterlife.
science makes you wait for
the next version,
the next upgrade,
the next trial phase.
same carrot.
same stick.
new factory.
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the priest once looked at the stars
and said,
“that’s god’s handwriting.”
the scientist looks at cells
and says,
“that’s us now.”
but neither admits
they can’t make a mosquito from scratch.
not even a blade of grass
without borrowing
from the thing they call dumb:
nature.
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the old gods were jealous.
the new gods are jealous too.
you can’t love trees
without getting flagged.
you can’t heal with herbs
without getting fined.
you can’t say “i trust my body”
without being told
you’re dangerous.
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but the worst part is
how much they look alike
when you stop squinting.
a man with a book
telling you
you’re broken
and only he can fix you.
a man with a degree
doing the same thing.
they stand in glass buildings now
instead of temples,
but they still collect offerings
in the name of salvation.
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and you?
you still kneel.
only now you kneel on appointment.
you kneel with a mask.
you kneel while scanning QR codes
and filling insurance forms
and praying to the god of
“latest data.”
you still light candles—
they just call them screens now.
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they told you
religion was over.
they lied.
they just gave it a PhD
and called it progress.
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