Science & Religion: Ideological Partnership

For a long time we thought that the so-called scientific community wanted to liberate humanity from obscurantism and from the dictatorship of ignorance. Scientific ideology once won the sympathy of people by presenting itself as the victim of Christian barbarism. For many decades scientific ideology stood in opposition to religious doctrines, making it simply the other side of the coin. This situation did not last long. Eventually, science collaborated for a very long time with religious doctrines, especially in domains that have social implications; then science became the instrument par excellence of religious and political propaganda led by interest groups.