Yet Another Religion Thread

Scientific arguments aside, wouldn't Gödel's second incompleteness theorem prove that any religion which attempts to justify itself must be inconsistent.

  Gödel's second incompleteness theorem: "For any formal recursively enumerable (i.e. effectively generated) theory T including basic arithmetical truths and also certain truths about formal provability, T includes a statement of its own consistency if and only if T is inconsistent."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_second_incompleteness_theorem#Second_incompleteness_theorem

I suppose. A declaration of completeness assumes a theory governs and is the judge of itself, therefore discarding a more specific proliferation of potentially beneficial contingency. But it's not the religion itself stating it's own consistency, only the people who think they understand it.

no, because you're retarded and don't understand the incompleteness theorem or it's context.

A religion is not a formal system containing basic arithmetic, therefore the incompleteness theorems do not apply.