now i'm not religious myself but what i find funny is the belief by atheists that they are any less manipulated than religious folk
it honestly makes me laugh when i see atheists talking down to religious people
and of course not all atheists are close minded but i've seen a lot that treat the science of our current era as dogma just like what they accuse the religious people of doing
quantum physics has shown that matter appears to be conscious
also at this point in time our instrumentation is able to measure less than 5% of the matter in the universe... the scientific community just calls the rest dark matter or energy at this point
i have a respect for science but i can't trust its wider conclusions on the universe when it can't even measure the vast majority of it