Does religion considered a scam?

If religion is not a scam, how can they build mansion churches when the world could use the money in so many better ways than feed the Ego. What about preachers who live in million dollar houses??? What about the catholic church using donated money to try and cover up child abuse from priests??? Is the right thing to do cover up or CLEAN HOUSE???? There are good people believing, going to church, and praising God. Perhaps, it's time good people CLEAN HOUSE!!!

Hi Fulltank, You are right in saying that many churches are very rich, in fact some are among the riches organizations in the world. In recent years however, membership in some churches have dropped dramatically and a few are actually in financial difficulty.The Roman Catholic church is known to be very rich despite the fact that they have had to pay money to victims of abuse in recent years. The Mormon church which has no paid clergy expects and usually gets one tenth of their income from it's members. Your question of whether or not it could be considered a scam is debatable as who can prove that what they are teaching isn't true? People go to church, give their money and apparently feel that they are getting value for their money. There have been many scams in religion and some have been caught up on, but no doubt there are many that haven't been discovered as yet. As long as people believe what their preachers are telling them and as long as there is no way to show them as being wrong, it would be practically impossible to prove it to be a scam. Blessings