>  It is, because you can verify the claims of a holy man if you go meditate in a cave for a couple of decades.

This is the most ridicolous thing I've read in a decade on HN. Congrats I guess?

You can readily go and verify a lot of claims of science and I gave you an example in another comment. What claims about god can I go and verify? I'm eager to try.

The missing ingredient is that if the common men--who you think have no better option than to depend blindly on someone they choose to believe--build a civilization based exclusively on the meditations of these holy men who they have accepted as the repositories of truth, they will find that their society will fall to those societies which have a, shall we say, more empirical basis for their view of the world.