Religion is very popular idea among the evil ones to gain status and steer the followers to give up their money and most importantly their mind for control.

The position of power is very attractive to psychopaths and anyone else that wishes to gain from such positions such as pedophiles. They will hide behind fake masks posing as christians or anything that will help them gain access to their satisfaction of vices. I have talked with many countless religious people and most of them refuse to even question or accept that just because it is a religion for their god, that they are exempt from being wrongly, fraudulently indoctrinated and that their leaders are not currupt. Not many are willing to accept that reality and continue to fund their evildoers and masters blindly. Mostly I think out of fear of what others would say about them if they suddenly stopped going to these religions or even if they just simply stopped funding them.