Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.

... With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen)... a polytheistic and disordered world of competing values and ideals... the economic, political, aesthetic, erotic and intellectual, which, with the onset of modernity, separate out into relatively autonomous realms (the process of Eigengeseztlichkeit) with their own value-spheres (Wertsphären).

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.