Post #56 "Who Owns God?"

Religion has until now controlled God, controlled the accessibility to God, controlled the means to acceptance by God. Religion has controlled the assurance or the denial of immortality as in afterlife in God's kingdom known as heaven. By controlling God, religion owns God. By owning God, Religion assumes authority over life by promise of eternal life. Religion also assumes authority over death through its power of bestowing and meting out salvation. Religion is about ownership of God's Power. Here comes the focus of the religion and science controversy for science's goal is also control of life and death through efforts and its ultimate goal-to create life in test tubes. Science works  to forestall death by means of prolonging life. Science ultimately seeks to conquer death by assuming the most sought after attribute of God-Immortality! The longer and better science can prolong life, the closer it comes to claiming Immortality...the Power of God. No wonder the controversy between religion and science is irreconcilable. Religion seeks to control God through ownership and the elimination of God through claiming and possessing God and God's qualities- the Transference of God into religion...God disappearing into religion. Science seeks to control God through elimination by denial of God's existence. Both religion and science seek not only the qualities of God but also the Essence of God; that each might take God's place! The question now takes on profound significance. After all, if God's ultimate Power is possessed and if Immortality is accomplished; what need is there of God?