The red heifer example sounds more like a priest with OCD than Divine Inspiration to me, though I do believe religion was created by man, so perhaps I'm biased.


On the one hand I agree with you that the main downfall of the analogy is that it assumes that G-d is just passively sitting around waiting to be understood, which is of course not my tradition's understanding of G-d.

I say if God wants us to understand him, he should eliminate all the sects that aren't preaching the Truth. He's got his lightning bolts. He could do it.