Religion in everything?

After watching the last part of Technocalyps I began to think about all the other places we can find religion and faith. I don't think of myself as a religious, but I also don't think I am without religion or faith. I think it is impossible to live in the USA (well, anywhere) and not be affected by faith or religion. The video proved that religion is apart of science (or is it science is apart of religion?), religion can be found in the government, schools, economics, restaurants, hospitals, banks, and the list goes on and on.

The government may claim to be separate from religion and God, but in reality it is very much apart of the government of today, yesterday and will continue to be there. Just being considered conservative almost always means you are Catholic or a "hard core" Christian. One of the major controversies around the election this year was based on the question of President Barak Obama's religion. Was he a secret Muslim or a true Christian? Depending on which religion he is made a big difference to people, this was a big factor as to whether they would vote for him or not. Of course no true American wants to vote for a Muslim because those are the people that attacked us (I don't think this, just in case you didn't get the sarcasm). This is the type of thought that goes through a lot of people's head in the United States, this is just evidence to the fact that religion does matter in voting for our representative. God is present in our pledge of the allegiance, "One nation under God" and the original lyrics of our national anthem, "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'" These are engraved into every American's head, from the moment they enter school, it is impossible to escape the reach of religion.

Faith can even be found in economics, it's hard to hear an economist talk about the current market without using the word faith. Economists believe in an invisible hand, that will hit down the greedy, according to Adam Smith (I guess we got a little too greedy). Some people may say that faith has nothing to do with religion, but faith by definition is a believe in a power beyond oneself.

Everywhere we go we see religion, at restaurants, hospitals, and banks. When I go to Italian restaurants I see pictures of beautiful churches and when I go to Red Robin I see pictures of the pope (even if there is a cartoon of red robin with his arm wrapped around his shoulder). A The bank there are tens of thousands to even millions (depending on the bank) of reminders of God, every single bill and coin has "In God we Trust" written across them. Ever single hospital has a chapel to pray for a miracle or for God to help heal people, hospitals are even ran by the Catholic Church (Providence across the western states), or named after saints (St. James Hospital in Bellingham). We are surrounded by religion, so why was I shocked to hear it had so much to do with science.

I went to a Catholic school my whole life (until now) and as surprising as it may sound they actually encouraged the learning of Darwin's theory of evolution. So I always knew that they encouraged the learning and understanding of science. But I never knew the degree to which the Catholics Church and other religions went to to research, understand and discover the mysteries of humans and Earth. I find it interesting that religions that rely on mystery put so much energy into figuring out the wonders and mysteries around us. I guess even the human need to acquire knowledge over throws or equals the need to have faith in something beyond us. I thought that religion would almost put limits on the development of Technology and have certain morals as to the development of artificial intelligence. But this video made it sound like most major religions support and encourage the development of technology without.

Religion has a hand in all aspects of our lives and now it seems that it will have a hand in our future. Does this mean that if religion has control over technology that it will once again have a larger role in government and in how we live our lives, like it once did in the past? Faith in a higher power, turning into faith in a higher technology, who would have thought? Oh boy do I love these Technocalyps videos ;).