/sci/ - Science & Math

It' worth mentioning that when the majority of dogmae were written, gods were the only ones capable of accomplishing truly world-scale miracles or cataclysms.

Jesus walked on water and made a couple fish and some bread feed a bunch of people. Science let people walk on the moon and genetically engineered strains of food which can grow in near-drought conditions.

I recall when Ariel Sharon was prime minister of Israel and he withdrew from the Gaza strip and hundreds of Kabalist mystics had a gathering to curse him. The leader of the group cursing him with "lashes of fire" had spend 62 years of his life attaining a spiritual "level" through massive study and contemplation of old texts. THe end result was he had a stroke and went into a coma and it was called a miracle/triumph of mystical power by many hardcore believers.

On the other hand in about 9 years of study a person of average intelligence could study physics/chemistry/materials science and explosives engineering and build a fully functional thermonuclear device ( given the materials) which can wipe out cities with no ambiguity about whether or not a nuke was the cause.

tl;dr : Religion doesn't have a monopoly on claims of power to heal/cure any more so there is hope it will be marginalized, but I don't think fully gone.