inconsistencies
people are notoriously bad at identifying inconsistencies in their beliefs. not to pick on any one group here. but let's start with muslims. muslims use death as both the greatest possible reward and the worst possible punishment. if you kill someone, they go to hell. if they kill you, you go to heaven. so if two muslims kill each other, how does allah decide which one gets the 50 virgins? weird. christians fear death so much they spend fortunes avoiding it. then sue others to coerce their help too. yet christians believe in the afterlife. weird. people say they want smaller government. yet they want the smaller government to provide all of the services currently provided by our big government. weird. people play the lottery in the hopes of winning. yet the chances of winning the lottery are vanishingly small. and even if you do win, winning almost universally makes people seriously unhappy. weird.