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Oh, well there is actually a cult called scientology, not to be confused with atheists, secularists, scientists or other free thinkers. Scientology was apparently based off of some science-fiction book by a writer called L. Ron Hubbard or something, and the cult is based off of some ridiculous story about negative energy or something being the souls of aliens that couldn't return to their original bodies, which apparently explains why we have these thoughts--sounds ridiculous to me. Then they have these e-meter things which apparently measure something; I don't even know quite what it is; it's not even science based. And like I said, you have to even pay to be a member. It wouldn't make much sense that scientology is becoming more popular because people don't believe in religion anymore; it should probably be diminishing or not growing much larger than it already is because it's just a scam for money; none of the things they do are even scientifically based. Although that's something you shouldn't even have to be told about; for goodness sake, it's based off of a SCIENCE-FICTION story. An example of more people going astray yet again, for the same two reasons I mentioned before.
Although I suppose there's a distinction between people who treat science like a religion, and people who accept scientific fact and evidence. The people who treat science like a religion believe in science out of faith, but doing so is redundant because science always works with evidence as much as possible, and any kind of faith you have in it means nothing to the scientists. The people that accept science as it is accept it because of how science has helped us discover what we could not and because of the evidence--it's all explainable. If something can be explained and evidence could be provided, you need not believe it for it to be true; you accept it because you have seen enough that you no longer need to doubt it or you have a reason to accept something. So I guess the people that you're referring to are probably the free thinkers, atheists, secularists and probably atheist-agnostics.
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