J&M on point as usual. Religions seem to be most successful when they are self-inoculating, i.e. they invent ways of handling any objection via unfalsifiable or intangible positions that are immune from attack, "slippery" would be another word for it. Comic books do the same thing, for example, Superman would be boring and pointless if it weren't for Kryptonite. Realizing that most of the narratives underpinning the main religions are simply the result of centuries of evolution of the most resilient stories (plus a lot of banal padding) illustrates the point, holy books are just literature, created by men in order to control and censor others, everything else is imaginings around what people would like there to be rather than what actually is.
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