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Any logical mistake could be the key. It depends on the person and what they most lean on to justify their religion. I'm currently a fan of explaining the concept of an explanation that explains every possible outcome being meaningless. Christianity does this all the time. Good thing happened to you? God is blessing you. Bad thing happened to you? God has a lesson for you in the suffering. Can't figure out why you were blessed or what you are supposed to learn? Gods ways are mysterious. If everything has the same explanation you explained nothing. You can simply eliminate your universal explanation and be at the exact same level of ignorance. Put another way, your "knowledge" of a universal explanation gives you 0 predictive accuracy improvement of the world around you, it only works after the fact. Offhand I can't think of any other alleged "knowledge" that useless. Outside of religion this principle only shows up when people misuse or misunderstand an idea that should have been useful.