I have a very important question that I need an answer to

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I have raised this question in various discussions over the last few months and have never received a response. I welcome responses from both religious and non-religious poeple. This has bothered me for some time and I want some closure...I will use the catholic church as an example as it is the one I am most familiar with and the one I was brought up as, although I am non-practising due to the atrocities I see happening everyday with religion. One such atrocity is this....The catholic church is one of the richest outfits in the world and the pope is one of the richest men in the world. How is this possible??? I thought religion was supposed to be caring and about helping others and loving fellow man??? Than why is all the money that the church has being held in banks (who knows where) and is used for building more churches and temples????? There are millions of starving and suffering people in the world, why is this money not going to help them??? The church should be the poorest "company" for lack of a better word in the world.....If God if truly caring, he would lead his people to worship in a field with no roof becuase he should not care about fancy temples with all hte suffering in the world....many peopel have to live in open fields, so why not worship once a week in one???? There should be no churches, if God was caring, that money would be used to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless not build fancy temples!!! This is one big problem I ahve with organized religion.....all the religious people will go to a warm, cozy, nicely decorated clean church to worship and pray for all the sick, dying and needy, while those people they are praying for are dying in the streets!!!! This is hyprocisy at it's best...I will never step foot in a church again if I can help it unless these things change....instead of sitting in a pew on Sunday afternoon, why not volunteer at the homeless shelter or food bank or give money to the needy instead of the church...if God was caring, he would want people to do that instead and I have a funny feeling that if he exists, those fancy churches are not what he wants....those fancy churches and collection boxes were put here to dupe people into thinking they are doing good when that money probably goes into some fund somewhere to support wars or genocide in countries that are seen as "undesirable". In my opinion, the masses have been mislead....if you really care about mankind, stop worshipping in a church and start helping your fellow man....nothing is being done by sitting in pew for several hours...thats not enough for us to do.....these are my opinions...I would like hear everyone's views on this as it confuses the heck out of me!!