>Agreed. Further iteration: the churches are mostly trading with people's feelings. Show me a church which never accepts donations, doesn't try to impose rules on its members and doesn't try to expand, and I may change my mind.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. For all the hypocrisy you see in organized religion (Catholic priests sexually molesting the altar boys, TV evangelists using prostitutes, etc.), there is a lot of very good work done with those donations.