How to tell if a religion is B.S.

[Angrboda]

The free will argument fails because it places an inherent value on free will which can't be rationally justified. Having free will may be valuable to us, but even if it is, that does not make it valuable in and of itself. Theists don't seem to think past this point. There is a lot of "makes sense epistemology" in theology, that theologists come up with a superficially plausible explanation and go no farther, as actually demonstrating the truth of an explanation is not their goal. Their goal is simply to establish that something is possible or consistent with the facts, in order to deny the assertion that theological beliefs are not true. Thus it seeks to guard, rather than establish, and so all its conclusions are mere shadows of truth, things that "might" be true, but not necessarily things that are true. This is the failure of theology. It is an epistemology based on the goals of apologetics, not based on a search for truth.