How is religion any different than creative speculation???

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12. My simple view on it:

Religion is something you can't prove, creative speculation (conspiracy theories) are something that have proof somewhere.

Either 9/11 was an inside job or it wasn't, for example. There is an answer to that because it is a human made issue. Same with kennedy, aliens, and pretty much everything else.

Religion is based on a speculation that you can't prove and goes off individual/group experiences and interpretations of those. It's more of an abstract speculation to understand things whereas conspiracy theories have a foundation in an actual event we can examine and know that in some way shape or form the answer is directly related to human actions (hiding information, lying, etc) - compared to something which involves non-human actions (the players in one are real and provable but they are not in the other).

So yes, both require speculation, but only one is founded on and centered around solely human actions (yes, you could say that ,technically, so is religion but see above).