I like to think of it this way:

Religion is the power of faith.

Science is the power of doubt.

Things work fine as long as the two are used within their proper spheres, and things get all screwy when they aren't. We see this screwiness quite often these days. Too many churches have abandoned their higher spiritual duties in pursuit of lower secular material gain and meddling in trivialities. In turn, the people try to fill the resulting spiritual void in their lives with blind fanaticism in empty "scientific" imagery, social movements and commercial trends. Dead dogmatism becomes widespread, and organizations start crumbling as less and less people know how to actually productively do anything anymore, much less have the internal spiritual development to give a damn about anything beyond their own base urges and immediate feelings.

Whether such a situation is by intentional nefarious design, simple short-sighted greed, or some combination of both, the result is nevertheless the same: everything's all screwed up.