[Religion has no such checks and balances. People accept dogma on faith, with any serious questioning it's teachings being discouraged, faith being seen as a virtue.
Oh man, is that ever wrong. There's something like 33,000 Christian denominations because nobody questions.
But then based on deprecated translation of an ancient Hebrew text we conclude the absurdity that God is the root of all evil.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
