Politics deals in the "something must be done"s.
Science promises "anything can be done". All technical problems can be solved (and everything's technical).
Religion deals in "nothing can be done"s — the unchanging nature of reality/humanity where we can only bow & make peace.
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What happens when u lose both religion & that religious category? And what happens when confidence in science advances (beyond its capabilities)?
Then "something must be done" gets applied to ever more questions & "anything can be done" increasingly emboldens the answers given.>
But both politics and science could do with a healthy dose of "nothing can be done". And an acceptance of those limitations would not diminish politics and science, nor would it make them 'more religious.' Actually it would enable politics and science to be more truly themselves.
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