[Brandon]

Well, there's facts about certain religions and there's stories about how the religion came to be. For instance, there was a man named Abraham who did travel all throughout the middle east, but that's not necessarily an indication that Abraham had any relation to God. We don't know whether Jesus was a real person or not, Matthew, part of the Bible, was someone who apparently knew Jesus personally and some other dude knew Jesus from someone else (I think it was John or something). The documents show that Matthew's writings and stories came from the same source as the other guy's stories that he got from his friends even though Matthew and John (or someone) have never seen each other or communicated with each other...coincidence? That's up to your interpretation. Every religion has a story about how it came to be; there are facts, but most of it is stories...especially when it comes to supernatural beings. A lot of historical evidence of a religion's beginning is either undiscovered, burned, etc.