Christianity went through a time of reformation in which the bounds of religious authority in the lives of its believers became clear: the realm of the body was that of the physical; the religious realm was and is spiritual. And if physical, capable of fact and knowledge; but if spiritual or community influence, subject to belief and opinion.
Just today, CBS news is reporting that a Jewish community is in the throes of a measles epidemic that some parents don't recognize nor think it will affect their children's health. Put bluntly, these parents are endangering the lives of their children on behalf of their religious convictions. But these demonstratives have no meaning in a physical world of body and flesh.
India and Nepal are lands where Buddhism sway parents on what to believe about the nature of illness and cleanliness. They have there rivers and streams that can cause serious disease; yet humans and animals are freely permitted to pollute. Something urgent must be done to rectify this problem in the physical realm, causing religious belief to become thought of as (scientific) knowledge.
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