Spires of lightning and steeples of rain,
Filling the waiting with remnants of pain
Hardly concerned with the thoughts of the doomed
Hardly consider they, too, are consumed

Drinking the scene in with eyes of deceit,
Only together can they be complete
Only arousing the burn of demise
In he they defraud and he who complies.

Sides of a magnet they oddly appear,
As though they could preach and angels would hear
Consider just briefly the shroud of the blind,
The darkness dark casts on the strangely maligned

Sliced from the skin of humanity's bone,
Only together can they be alone.
Science, religion, seems one of them lied
The first is but Jekyll to God's Mr. Hyde.

(1) symbolism; “spires of lightning” for the creepy settings in books when science experiments take place
(2) oddly, those who don't know about evolution think of it as dehumanizing. And religion is hurtful when it condemns natural instincts and/or homosexuality, to name a few.
(3) though atheists sometimes forget that the religious are not necessarily all dumb and cruel but are indoctrinated
(4) religion must deal with science to come into existence in the first place; we are all affected by religion whether we notice or not

(5) both think the other is seeking to destroy the other and force their (a)morality on the people. begins viewpoint of the uneducated
(6) again, science seems like it needs religion to exist, but at the same time science encompasses all just fine. Jekyll is both good and evil, Hyde just evil.
(7) both take heavy criticism
(8) the religious are deceived when they encounter the science they refuse to learn; the scientific are “deceived” because religion is pervasive, and many scientists agree with the statement that “religion is outside science's realm”. Again, from the POV of the layman, both pure science and pure religion are equally at fault; in reality, religion is most certainly wrong.

(9) like Jekyll and Hyde
(10) like they're pure good and/or evil, something that only seems to exist in the “supernatural”/religious
(11)
(12) the religious are incited to anger and reveal the fallacies of religion; the scientific are occasionally forced to accept religion as “part of human nature” or outside the realm of science instead of a falsity

(13)
(14) Jekyll and Hyde: POV of the lawyer. Science and religion together intuitively clash. Jekyll and Hyde are truly one; Jekyll could not stamp out Hyde, but perhaps would have succeeded had he accepted Hyde as part of human nature
(15) wonder which?
(16) Science is whole on its own; religion only exists in the absence of science (and even partly as a reaction to it). Jekyll is whole on his own; Hyde only exists as a part of Jekyll and as the suppressed part of Jekyll's personality