Talking about its basement presumes that the mind has an upstairs too. There, we think consciously, slowly, deliberately, verbally, and often at some remove from immediate circumstances (thus, this cognition is off‐line). Abstruse theological formulations consistently feature counterintuitive representations, but their counterintuitiveness is copious rather than minimal. Just for starters, the theologically correct Christian God is all‐good, all‐seeing, all‐knowing, all‐powerful, and all‐present. The theologically informed religiosity of educated participants in large‐scale, literate societies regularly employs representations that are radically counterintuitive (McCauley 2011).