Post by Bill MReligion is things hoped for but not yet seen or proven. Science
is things seen and proven but not necessarily hoped for.
Don't be so quick. Although I'd be the first to dismiss organized
religion as a waste, I must also admit that the evidence supports
the idea that spirituality is a human component, every bit as real
as your emotions.
People do have genuine spiritual experiences. They are real.
The problem with organized religions is that that they not only
offer a narrow, rigid (though quite detailed) explanation for
these spiritual experiences, but they all do so at the expense
of everybody else's experiences & explanations.
Think of the stereo-typical wife who gets upset because her
husband insists on leaving the toilet seat up. Now imagine a
husband who coldly insist that she is not upset about his
leaving the toilet seat up, and he knows tis for a fact because
it never bothers him at all & if it doesn't bother him then
there's no way it can bother her. Imagine if this husband was
serious. Imagine if he took the same attitude towards everything
else that upset his wife.
That's organized religion for you, except that they take it
even further.