I Thought Science Was Going to Replace God. I Was Wrong.
I don’t know where it came from. I’m sure I didn’t get it from my home, and I don’t remember it being taught at school. It’s almost as if I absorbed it from the atmosphere somehow. The mantra I’d internalized went like this:
‘Religion is the empty, ignorant past. Science has answered most of the questions we thought we needed God for, it’s learning more every day, and the day is coming when educated people will know we won’t need any of that old superstition anymore at all.