Though people associate the word "religion" with "belief in God", the past two years have shown us that this definition of the word is too narrow to capture what religion is really about. As this title says, religion is about belief. It is about belief regarding subjects we don't understand.

With this perspective on religion, we see that the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe are deeply religious people. The dominant religion is $cience, by a long shot. Not 1 in 20 people who are treated by the medical profession has a remote clue of the mechanism, purpose, or effectiveness of the given treatment. They take the medicine because they trust the doctor prescribing it. How is this different from the "treatments" the priests offered in the middle ages? Substitute doctors for priests and the dynamic matches perfectly.

The difference is that $cience evolved from science. Science (a process of thought requiring strict and repeatable reasoning to defend a statement of conclusion) allowed tremendous insight for hundreds of years regarding natural processes (including in medicine) we had not previously understood.

Unfortunately, as happens with human nature, science was captured and deemed profitable by the powerful, and $cience was born.

The modern medical and climate change communities are entirely captured by $cience. Science has long since been relegated to the margins. But the priests of $cience are brilliant at maintaining the appearance of the original practitioners of science. The lay people thus continue to believe.

Covid has demonstrated to us the ultimate expression of that belief. Like all religions, as the clergy is challenged, they become increasingly dictatorial and violent in defense of the "meaning" they defend.

Millions of people are dying for this.