[He Rides A White Horse]

You can do anything once you have an all-powerful, all-important figure to serve, be it God, Allah or the state.

Let's say I pass you a twenty dollar bill. How do you tell if it is real or not?

You could attempt to study every counterfeit variation or mistake ever produced. Quite a task.

A much easier way would be to study a real twenty dollar bill in great detail; one could then easily see what is real and what is not.

[antiRepublicrat]

A much easier way would be to study a real twenty dollar bill in great detail; one could then easily see what is real and what is not.

How do I know if my supposedly real reference sample for a $20 is a real $20? Perhaps I'm comparing a fake to a fake.

I would just ask the Treasury Department if it's real and get an absolutely definitive answer. In the case of deity, I can go to a hundred different supposedly authoritative sources and get a hundred different answers. Most will tell me their $20 is the only real one, leaving me broke if I believe them since I only have a wad of $20s verified as genuine by other authorities.