The religious nature of most people prevents them from smelling rot in a system even when you shove their nose into a heap of crap.
Its unfortunate that many of us embraced christianity and were fed distorted and half truths encouraging us to become believers and not thinkers or researchers.
I'd rather give more than 10%of my income to help the needy, orphans, widows and the like I see around me than hand it to some institution that has other priorities in the name of God.