Scene: Science Has Spoken So Shut Your Mouth.

Scene: A high brow cafe near the University of California at Berkeley where political activist Secular Humanist scientists gather to pontificate, preach, plan, and plot.

John Citizen Goode, sitting nearby sipping soda and listening to the ongoing conversation, leans over and says to his friend: "We're hearing slick Sammy Science's subtle sham shell game being propagated here. Somebody ought to write a book entitled How Slick Sammy Science Slithers Hither And Thither To Push on The Public His Personal Political Plans By Craftily Claiming He Has Science On His Side."

"I don't agree with your conclusions on this issue", suddenly said John Citizen Goode.

"Shut your mouth. we have the Science on our side and you don't", screamed Professor Samuel Slicke Hitla, "you will therefore bow down to our authority."

"I totally agree with that", upspoke Professor Badd Bobby Brainy Himla, "the ends justify the means, and we're out to save humanity from themselves."

"Yes indeed", replied Professor Madd Muse A. Leanie, "we must save humanity with laws enforced by police with guns."

"Count me in on that too,", muttered Professor A. Stealthy Staalinn, "the masses are science-ignorant fools, especially religious people, and they must be controlled by force of law."

John Citizen Goode turns and says to his friend: "If you dare oppose these science-tyrants and their science-bigotry, they will create an evil name for you. They'll label you a Science Denier and then use that to do their best to destroy you, to ruin your reputation, to destroy your influence, even to get you fired from your job if they can. When you stop and think about it, we have Science Nazis on our trail and they want to hurt and destroy us because we dare to oppose THEM.

John Citizen Goode, still taking to his friend, concludes the scene . . . . . "All evil dictators who desire to be your Lord and Master, claim to have Science on their side. Their message to you is, we know the truth and you don't, so we need to control you because we know so much more than you do ~ and its in your long term best interest if you obey us for we have the Science on our side and you don't. Adolph Hitler was able to recruit more followers among educated Germans by claiming that Science was on his side. Hitler had highly educated scientists with earned degrees from reputable universities telling the world that Hitler had the Science on his side. And enough of the world's gullible bowed down to Hitler's scientists and to his other We-Have-The-Truth-And-You-Don't-Experts ~ resulting in the world giving birth to hideous Nazism and Nazism giving birth to the evil racist filthy Nazi Eugenics murder machine. John Cornwell wrote a book on that entitled Hitler's Scientists."

I put this in the Religion Department, because me thinks the discussion will be religious in nature (if there is any discussion.)

Scientism could be the one-world religion at the end times, in the bible called “Mystery, Babylon”.

The root word for Mystery is ‘knowledge, covered’, and the root word for Babylon comes from the Tower of Babel which was the Tower of Knowledge. The root word for science is knowledge, as well as the root word for techNOLogy.

People are worshipping their new god, scientism. There are even some here on Free Republic.

I LOVE science. True science. My view is that God LOVES
true science too, for example Math , , ,

My view is that Math originated in the nature of God who
is the Original Mathematician -— just as all the other
disciplines also originated in the nature of God.

God Is The , , , ,
Original Mathematician
Original Physicist
Original Cosmologist
Original Inventor
Original Artist
Original Scientist
Original Oceanographer
Original Philosopher
Original Epistemologist
Original Empiricist
Original Poet
Original Writer
Original Lover {wanting the best for others}
Original Chooser { Volition }
Original Economist
Original Emotion-ist {the full range of All Good Emotions}
Original Planner
Original Creator
Original Designer
Original Technologist
Original Educator
Original Everything Good , , ,

, , and we humans participate in all that up there since we are
made in the image of God , , ,

, , and that above is why human beings, made in the image of God,
have been able to build the modern world and will be able to keep making
progress in Science and Technology for ever and ever, even when the
human race makes the transition from Earthly human history to Eternity.

Humans are made in the image of God and God has , ,
~ An Intellect -— and so do we humans
~ Emotions -— and so do we humans
~ Volition {a Will, the ability to choose — and so do we humans

God’s Human Race Project ends victoriously.

Long live science. True science.

JAG

One example of what the OP is about.

Charles “The Enemy” Templeton vs. Billy Graham/And All Billy’s Fellow Christians.

Templeton was at one time a widely known evangelist who was associated with
the Billy Graham ministries. Templeton turned against God, and turned to the worship
of his true little banty rooster god names Science, and then tried to turn Billy Graham away
from the Christian faith. Templeton even wrote a book titled:

“Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith”
(It’s on amazon)

“For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada
and the United States. During the 1950s, he and Billy Graham were the two most successful exponents
of mass evangelism in North America. Templeton spoke nightly to stadium crowds of up to thirty thousand people.”

JAG

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