Science started as a Christian embracing entity. Beginning with Newton, Faraday, Schrödinger, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Robert Boyle, Joseph Priestley, Gregor Mendel, Joseph Lister, the list goes on.
God is dead, long live reason, kicked off in the mid-1800s with John William Draper and Andrew Dixon White.
Draper wrote: The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874). It is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on the one side and the compression arising from traditional faith. Draper presented the development of Christianity as leading to repression of science. The book was a screed against Roman Catholics.
White wrote: The History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. White had little formal education. However, that didn’t stop him from becoming the 1st President of Cornell University. (He bought his way in.) He did get some education after he became rich.
Draper wrote: The Conflict Between Religion and Science. He popularised the conflict thesis, which proposed that the relationship between religion and science had to be severed.
The Draper-White Conflict Thesis followed this. It oversimplified and distorted theology. It had a vitriolic hostility toward Christianity. These two men were hugely successful popularizers and proselytizers. They sold the idea that science was for the educated elites and that religion was for idiots and fools. Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on the side of science, versus the belief system of Christianity with its voodoo rituals, liturgies, and simplistic preachings. Christianity was only for the uneducated masses. The intellect and reason of science became superior to all else. Religion was to be practiced by only the unwashed masses and the Negros.The elites bought the program hook, line, and sinker. It validated their self-known superiority. The dark side has sold these lies ever since. Hitler used this same strategy on the German race, who, deep down, always knew of their superiority.