[kongolongo]

No that is the entirety of your comment. Without the appeal to tradition there is nothing separating a random turtle god from an actual religion.

If there is more than an appeal to tradition how would you argue for or against different religions? Religions with as much tradition as Christianity - Hinduism, Buddhism, and even some monarchies and dynasties also have the same stories that are told by millions of mouths to millions of years over generations as you say.