[Moshineko]

Well, I don't really understand how game burning ties in with religion vs. science, it's more of a tolerance vs. intolerance problem.

Science doesn't need any power to fight against it, as it openly defies itself as part of the scientific method. When people stop challenging science, it stops being science, and becomes dogma. Without the ability to change itself, science loses what it is, and stops progressing. Even religion serves to strengthen science, as it provideds skepticism, which should always be present in the scientific community.

Religion isn't really based on the same ideals as science, the two only butt heads in a few areas, to be perfectly honest. I've never seen a reverend, for example, telling us that the idea that ice becomes water through the infusion of thermal energy is wrong, and ice melts only through the power of god. Neither does science usually come along and try to prove that there's no such thing as the soul.

Mind, people use the two improperly to try to make these sorts of points, but they're really not using science and religion at that point, they're just using their own wishful thinking. The idea that religious trances are caused in the body by an area of the brain doesn't in any way discount the idea that religions could be right. It merely says that a certain feeling is created by certain chemicals, not why those chemicals are present, or why that area of the brain exists in the first place.

Likewise, the idea that god created the world has little to do with playing down the theory that stars are balls of burning hydrogen and helium. Really, the best you can say is that god created those big balls of fire, as there's not really that much discussion in most religions about what the stars really are, at least not after the Renaisannce, when science really became science and not a stylized form of logical debate.

Again, I think what you've got in that chaotic quote in the OP is a fight between intolerant people, apparently on both sides of the argument. The religious freaks burning games are intolerant of fantasy violence, and the anti-religious nuts on the other side are intolerant of the idea of the bible being important. Ironically enough, each side isn't striking out against what their real "enemy" is, but at a group that doesn't really represent an opposition of their ideals. You can easily find people who are devout worshippers, and go home to play GTA on their computers, so it's obvious that the Bible and mass media can't be that detrimental to each other.