It is worth noting that science has become the object of as much idolatry as religion before it. There are many who believe that "science" offers humankind same promise of an infinitely better tomorrow that christian millenialists once promised , and they accept
"scientific miracles" with the same unquestioning fervor that is attributed to the Crusaders.

Think about "The Cult of Reason" and "Scientific Socialism", and Eugenics, and how they raised reason and scientific inquiry on a high pedestal, promising to better humanity, and how they led to The Terror, Stalin's purges, and the Holocaust. Which equalled, and likely surpass the enormity of the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the purges and the many trials of heretics and witches that we associate with the Church of the Middle Ages.

Do not misunderstand me--I don't believe for a single moment that these terrible things are a consequence of Newton's Laws of Motion, or Darwin's Theory of Evolution, or Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, any more than I believe that the Inquisition was a consequence of the Golden Rule.

It seems more likely that there are flaws in the human character that taint even our most noble endeavors. and so it goes...