Since I believe in the middle path between religion and science (which I believe both are inherently flawed,) it is necessary for me to convey exactly what this beneficial middle path is.

Science is simply a method to take a philosophy—or an idea from a philosophy—and prove it possible or true in reality, and embellish it with facts.  The result and downfall of this, is that science, being normally viewed as infallible and supreme, is nothing but a political and social weapon.  Evidence of this, is how society of the times dictates the science of the times.  Newtonian science was reflective of the Catholic view of a pristine Universe.  Einstein’s science was reflective of an industrializing and fast-paced society, and modern quantum mechanics is reflective of Taoism and relavatism.  (Not to mention that the “Big Bang,” minus the explosion part, is a classic Chinese belief in mysticism, and evolution is Buddhism for species.)  Over all, science is often but a religion.... the very thing it scorns.

Religion’s failings are much more known, and, encapsulated in one word, is “faith.”  Faith is what allows the few to benefit over the many, which can be said to be the main point of religion, (example- Islam and various cults.)  Religion damages the human core, which is questioning, independence, and absolute truths existing on Earth as well as the equivalent of “heaven.”  Another prime problem of religion is the “Pastor Complex”—when responsibility for superiority is given rise by some personal public declaration or fact, and the self-superiority is enforced by faith, leading to the suppression of the old “sinner” personality or faults, causing subconscious negative reactions.  Simply put, the individual thinks there should be a large personal ascendance because of some act of faith or conversion into a religion, and is pressured by his or her peers to really be ascended.  Thus the mind schisms, dividing the ascended and old qualities, and even suppressing the old qualities into the past.  However, the old qualities are still there, and are merely expressing themselves from the subconscious, so that the old personality is strained through the new “ascended” one, and this internal denial leads to some negative defense mechanisms.  One is that there are levels of intolerance for those not like the individual’s new personality.  The next is impulsions that are seemingly random often crop up.  Finally, the third is that the individual desperately tries to keep from descending and thus will often cruelly punish themselves.

However, science and religion do have some universal good ideas that should not be ignored.  Science’s main benefit is that you must not just muse about something, but go and see if it really exists, and test it.  Thinking logically and questioning are the great points to science—believing in only what isn’t extraneous.

Religion’s main positive points are moral responsibility, mystery, and and obsession with finding absolute truths. 

Christanity is an especial problem though, and represents the worst flaws of all the religions. After all, if it is so true and self-evident, how come you need faith?
Here are its tools of manipulation: