How does one know what to believe??

When will the world realize that a religion can be anything in our current world. In the past there were few explanations for what happens in life, how it happens, and why it happens. Religion was used to explain all this, made up by men, to fit their fantasies, delusions, or as ways to control people and achieve power over masses.

If one can establish a religion, it automatically becomes tax-free. This also spells great power. The Vatican has amassed enormous power through money, treasures, land ownership, and it constantly violates the American rule of not mixing church and state. Austin Cline writes: Churches, however, tend to benefit the most from the various tax exemptions available, in particular because they qualify for many of them automatically, whereas non-religious groups have to go through a more complicated application and approval process. Non-religious groups also have to be more accountable for where their money goes, while churches, in order to avoid possibly excessive entanglements between church and state, do not have to submit financial disclosure statements.

Robert Parry writes in the Reverend Moon and his Bush family connection. This self-proclaimed God-like creature has been in jail for tax evasion. That doesn't seem to matter. The Unification Church owns the Washington Times and is the biggest contributor to the Republican party. Where corruption begins and religion ends often baffles me.