The specific worship of scientism—the ideology that science is the only valid way to understand anything—as a fervent belief system. It applies the language and rituals of science to domains like ethics, art, and spirituality, claiming they are meaningless if not “scientifically proven.” It’s a crusade to forcibly convert all human experience into data.
Scientistic Neopentecostalism Example: An online commentator argues that love is “just a neurochemical cascade for reproduction” and that a poet’s description of heartbreak is “objectively inferior” to an fMRI scan of a sad brain. They evangelize for this reductionist view with religious fervor, treating anyone who values subjective experience as a primitive heathen.
by Abzugal February 8, 2026
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