We don't need religion for that, humanism exists a way of living for instance. I don't think (most) people treat science "as a religion". Some tech leaders se

We don't need religion for that, humanism exists a way of living for instance. I don't think (most) people treat science "as a religion". Some tech leaders seem to have swap Ayn Rand (who if you look at the early days definitely acted like a cult leader), to this AI doomer cult, and as a result seem to be acting terribly. Religion was much wider spread in the 1800s, but that didn't stop industrialists acting terribly. I don't think the theory holds water at all.