Hi,

I am new but this thread seems very very interesting to me, I Personally have suffered from OCD and have been diagnosed with it. I have been in cognitive therapy which has helped me TREMENDOUSLY.
The above post hit it on the nail...Its all about accepting the fears and imperfections and learning to NOT get rid of them but accepting the risk and living with it.
Ironically, my fears and obsessions where rooted in scrupulosity.
Basically (I am presbyterian) I constanly obsessed about whether I sinned or not (sinned by causing harm to others in countless ways) and whether I prayed right..
and for many many many years I developed compulsions about praying right...then it evolved to cleaning because if I didnt clean, it would pass on disease (and harm people) and I would be a sinner..so then, since I was a sinner I would pray to ask for forgiveness...and as I prayed, I would stumble on my prayers and had to restart the prayer.....and on ...and on..
It go to the point where I prayed in a ritualistic kind of way for hours and hours and loose all my day anxious about it...
it was very bad. cognitive therapy gave me some great strategies

But back to your inquiries about science and religion....this is a sensitive subject so I will give my thoughts in the most prudent and respectfull way.
I am actually a researcher in Physics so I deal with science every day, at the same time I am presbyterian and I find that throught my life faith is so important.
and you are right ...sometimes these two ideas seem incopatible..
But in my view they realy are not. religion..., that is what (I think) we practice, ...but faith in a God that provides for us, and aknowledging that we are part of his creation, trancends to deeper levels that are not incopatible with the scientific understanding that God himself gave us!

any how, just thought I would share some thoughts