The scientific view is the skeletal form of modernity, and it has influenced and shaped very aspect of our lives. Science and scientific rationalism offered us two things that were meant to replace our hunger for the divine -- secularism and technology....
Secularism is a way of looking at the world apart from the language and rules of the gods....Science took the place of God, offering answers and giving meaning to life....
Secularism's partner, technology, pitched the aSsurance of a better future and the guarantee of unending progress.

Spencer Burke. A HERETIC'S GUIDE TO ETERNITY.