^{Most religions, especially ones less than 200 years old, do not encourage research into and discussion of their origins. Why so? Maybe because their current leaders feel slightly uneasy that so many other religions began in exactly the same way. They began with one man claiming to have had a vision from God. In the vision God tells the man it is time to start a new religion. The man tells those around him what happened and those people go out into the population to spread the word and collect the funds necessary to build churches and to give the “visionary” the lifestyle befitting the leader of God’s one and only true religion.}

^{Is this (more or less) the way your religion started? If so, there are a few questions that need to be answered.}

^{Why would God choose to transmit such an important message via a vision to just one person? Surely the creator of the universe could come up with a means of communication that could be verified by other people. And why does God always want people to start a new religion? If so, that means all other existing religions are false, including all those started by previous “visionaries”! How likely or believable is it that for thousands of years God has watched only false religions on Earth and then, suddenly, decided enough was enough and it was time to have a true religion started by means of a vision to just one man? Why are there no accounts of people receiving visions from God telling them to join an existing religion? Could that possibly be because if that happened the “visionary” wouldn’t then be a leader – and wouldn’t have any power?}