its true, priests had the comfort and time availible to seek god in the material, so they did. you need education so ideas can sprout in ur mind and outside the church the education was for labor and such. infact if relligion didnt banish these people, science now wuldnt be separate from relligion. and infact the reason these people were banished, was purely political, its aways political and i dont understand why no1 separates political relligion from cultist relligion(brainwash) from just relligion, where your just free to explore the spiritual, your freedom, your purpose, and so on. relligion and science can only enrich a man. but becouse of personal agande people like you guys just refuse to aknowledge. i mean today you can read any relligious book as freely as you can read a science article or w/e. you dont really n eed to get in some idiotic group, be it relligious or scientific. from my observation, for every relligious fan/fanatic, there is a science fan/fanatic or even 2 or 3 since science is more popular today. this desire to belong to a group seems to only make people more poor and angry then anything, and actual knowledge is as free as air...