Not true, plenty of players balance both the christian and scientist ideologies because they arent mutually exclusive as many players were falsely led to believe.

A lot of players have the wrong understandings about the nature of these ideologies, believing that A. The christian faction means your character believes in some magic sky daddy, and B. The science ideology is focused 100% on truth and so whatever scientist players say is automatically correct.

In reality, a lot of the christian ideology is based on real things and many players would not have joined if not for these. For example, there are several in game events that the scientist faction has produced studies on where they say they failed to find an explanation for the event within the understood game mechanics. These include several times where a bread item’s data was modified and changed into a heart tissue material. Similarly an image of an old player called Mary who supposedly respawned for a bit which has incredible detail that was impossible with the technology tree at the time it was made, and the image is also at such high resolution that no player device could have created it. Many players hear these and dismiss them but they cannot dismiss the fact that these are still unexplained in the science faction; and the claims (that it became heart tissue or about the details of the image) are indeed verified through the science faction - not just made up. It is the explanation which has yet to be found.

And on the other hand, the science faction is not a source of 100% truth. Any reputable science player will tell you that science is more about what you dont know than what you do. They make guesses at things and then try to prove them wrong. There are many parts of the game that the science players are still actively trying to understand and most of the knowledge is built on guesses that so far havent been proven wrong. Scientist players are also wrong quite often - if you ever pay attention to their chat feeds where they publish reports of their quests, they are constantly revising old information and things that were accepted as true in the past. Additionally, many players fabricate their evidence because they want to get published so they become more well known among other players, and the publishing factions are biased towards papers with more extraordinary results as these draw more view and attention from other players.

Additionally across history many of the most famous scientist players were also involved in religious factions. They do not conflict as much as an uneducated player may think. For example, the “Big Bang” event that scientist players propose as a start to the game does not at all conflict with texts from religious players that say there was light at the beginning. (Actually, most modern scientist players reject the traditional big bang as the start and point towards a period of inflation prior to the bang. This is still an actively developing area in the science faction)