Now, the simplest answer is we have religious belief because what religion tells us is true. That raises a whole lot of challenges that we're all familiar with and perhaps the most relevant for tonight's discussion is there are over 4000 distinct religions practiced on Earth and if we just take one of them, say we parse Christianity a little more finely, there are over 33,000 distinct denominations. They can't all be right. So the natural supposition is that at most one of them is right, which would mean that