Yeah that's kind of my point. Maybe God gave us brains to figure these things out instead of everyone having a crazy knee-jerk reaction and just saying science is the devil.. the Arabs invented algebra . They were doing what was considered cutting edge scientific research about a thousand years ago until someone read the Quran and said math is the devil and they have a contributed anything to science since
America that needs to get his head out of his collective hiney and stop demonizing science or we won't be far behind
Extremism of any kind is bound to happen at any time.
It‘s important that the rest don’t get caught up in it and most people don’t . But with the rise of the internet extremism now has a larger reach. Back in the day everyone knew of the village idiot and dealt with him/her appropriately. Now the village idiot goes online, finds other village idiots and creates a community to infect the 95% of us.
This is why it’s important to just “shake the dust off your shoes“ as Jesus said and move on.
God has created us in His image with the ability to reason , think and articulate our existence in His creation and has given us free will to choose Him or reject Him based on that free will.
Science for me simply strengthens my faith in God. There are too many things in this universe which are unexplained even with extreme probability of coincidence If you take it down to Math.
Our God-given reason and intelligence ultimately leads us to Him.
We are born with the ability to seek God.
As I mentioned in another topic regarding non believers, during my talks with atheists I think they are in rebellion against God because they’ve had a bad experience usually with the type of extremist Christians that you’re also mentioning. Many of atheists are very well versed in scriptures and point many contradictions in the Bible but it’s their experience with other Christians which has given them a sour taste.
But when you look at other examples of true (atheist) people in the jungle or Amazon forests who are unaffected by the world and don’t know what Christianity is, or what religion is, when interviewed about the notions of death they said that “the spirit goes in the sky”.
This tells me that a human raised by the wolves in a forest shows a God-given inclination to search for a higher power and has a built-in spirituality. This also tells me that atheists are in rebellion against God due to their bad experiences with Christians.
Your mentioning of history regarding Arabs, science and where they are now and where America could be, is also something that I agree with but I think because of the internet, the reaction for common sense would be significant as compared to authoritarianism they experienced back then When they could eliminate the voices of those with common sense.
‘But internet can also be controlled like it is in China, yet those who are seeking use VPN programs to bypass the Chinese firewall. so the truth is out there for those who seek.