Screwtape on Science

"I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The 'Life Force', the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis, may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work -- the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls 'Forces' while denying the existence of 'spirits' -- then the end of the war will be in sight." (pp. 30-31, Letter 7 from the Screwtape Letters)

That old bureaucrat nailed it. The materialist magicians of today may only be the forerunners of the Greatest Ever, but man, are they good. Take a good look at sci-culture, junk science, scientific dissent and tell me again that sorcerors have become a byword.