It's a shame that more of the scientific method has not found its way into religion.
If religion was purged of dogma, superstition and impossible literalism, and then found its feet planted in truly humanistic acts of love and fellowship, compassion and deeds, while expressing its esoteric and abstract concepts with lots of wriggle room it would be palatable to so many more people.
If religion alined with science and proved itself by deeds few would ever doubt or challenge its claims.
Science has its restrictions because it can deal only with physical reality, we are an aspect of physical reality so it deals with us. If spiritual reality exists then our only way to influence our position in spiritual reality is to live as rightly and educate ourselves as appropriately as we can in physical reality. The future will take care of itself if we live correctly in the present.
