OK, either one or the other or both together for the temple taxes. Always defaulting to a religious explanation is perhaps a faulty default. Yes, religion is important, but it does not explain everything going on around people all the time. There are alternative explanations that make a lot of sense, too. Especially if you consider that our history may have been grievously altered by the great alterers, you know, the liars. Just think of the different theories about the use of the pyramids, all over the world.