HMM. You make some good points. I think my POV is making me unable to frame the question in a way that even makes sense for a lot of religions outside the WASP family (which includes atheism-evolved-from-protestantism)
Something I've encountered in feminist etc critiques of science is that there are multiple ways of knowing and that scientific rationalism and the scientific method is just one (and one that even by it's own standards is not infallible) This hurts my brain but having somewhat come to terms with it I can see how it blurs the boundaries of religion even more (especially since some religions explicitly embrace science/logic etc)
I'm not sure I see science as a religion, though that may just be us defining "religion" differently. Myself I don't have faith so much in science as in questioning and testing, which may in some cases mean abandoning science for a different more effective way of knowing.
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Re: Hopefully I have expressed these thoughts in a way that makes some sense
Something I've encountered in feminist etc critiques of science is that there are multiple ways of knowing and that scientific rationalism and the scientific method is just one (and one that even by it's own standards is not infallible) This hurts my brain but having somewhat come to terms with it I can see how it blurs the boundaries of religion even more (especially since some religions explicitly embrace science/logic etc)
I'm not sure I see science as a religion, though that may just be us defining "religion" differently. Myself I don't have faith so much in science as in questioning and testing, which may in some cases mean abandoning science for a different more effective way of knowing.