There’s religion and religion, belief and belief. “Natural philosophy” and religions that addressed the natural world through simple myths (thunder means Zeus is mad and we gotta sacrifice a cow, idk) were certainly a thing, but Judaism and Islam, for instance, talk about what lies beyond the veil, Jesus’ “unseen”, and has nothing to do with the material world. Science and monotheism are not superimposed, science is about anything you can actually have evidence for.
Religion is proto science to try make sense of life, the universe and everything.
There’s religion and religion, belief and belief. “Natural philosophy” and religions that addressed the natural world through simple myths (thunder means Zeus is mad and we gotta sacrifice a cow, idk) were certainly a thing, but Judaism and Islam, for instance, talk about what lies beyond the veil, Jesus’ “unseen”, and has nothing to do with the material world. Science and monotheism are not superimposed, science is about anything you can actually have evidence for.
In theory there’s actual observations in there somewhere. It isn’t all just secondhand stories.