People love to make quasi-religions by introducing flawed premises or arguments early in the reasoning process and then proceeding to build a massive superstruc

People love to make quasi-religions by introducing flawed premises or arguments early in the reasoning process and then proceeding to build a massive superstructure on top of that. People see this gigantic tower of stuff builded on flawed premises and assume it must be legit. A clever religion founder probably engineered the thing from end to beginning where they found the conclusion they wanted and then worked their way back through their argument to see where they could sneak in a flawed premise or argument to make it work.