text: is religion fact or something else we have no idea of? thanks?   i find your options too limited.  its never been about facts, its about hope love and charity.  we all have a good idea what those virtues are, but there is not a fact among them. does a parent love their child?  you can't do experiments on that to decide, black or white, its true or false.  as the savage garden song goes, "i believe parents did the best they knew how to do". do you know if an elevator is safe, for a fact, before you go into it.  no, if you had to prove everything before you believed it - assumed it - you would be frozen with uncertainty. the best you can hope for is reasonable certainty. religion is reasonable, though many religious people are totally unreasonable in they way they talk about religion.  i guess you think science is all about facts, but most of it is theory, reasonable assumptions.  data have to be reasonably accurate but even with the best intentions, the next experiment could show a weakness in a theory.  that why they do the experiment.  so lets open our minds with a good degree of humility and be reasonable in the way we treat each other, we are all in this together.