Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky, who watches everything you do, every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things he will send you to a special place of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time.
But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
He always needs money. He's all-powerful, all-present, all-knowing and all-wise. Just can't handle money.
Religion takes in billions and billions of dollars. They pay no taxes and somehow they always need money.