>>93049689 The idea that religion means you disregard science was so ridiculous to me that I thought anything I heard about religious people or conservatives in the US was satire until I was in college.
I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that there were actually people that stupid.
Trying to understand what or how God does things is not some great sacrilege.
Once I actually did some goggling on it to try and figure out where the hell people got these stupid ideas from and discovered that for most of Islamic history the official stance was that learning science was an actual religious duty. (Man gets dominion over the Earth. To take care of something you must understand it. Ergo, science is your religious duty give to Adam by God himself.)
Things are a bit different nowadays but that probably has to do with us placing a cult that was exiled to the dessert for being crazy in charge of the middle east after the collapse of the Ottoman empire.
