I can't answer the question as posed ... and I think that the question is not quite as neutral as it appears. And there is the assumption that we all agree on what is "good" ... I don't think we do. We may come to some reasonably close consensus on the difference between right and wrong, esp. those of us who belong to the generation that had it beaten into them
... but right and wrong are not necessarily synonymous with good and evil ... "good" and "evil" carry too much baggage, loaded onto them by various religions.
Now, if I were asked: "Can Christianity be a beneficial force," I could answer. And I would probably say "yes." But so could Islam. Judaism. The WWE even.
