I agree with you wholeheartedly and I live amongst these people, my Dad and sibs are religious so I have more evidence of this than anyone and its all one big farce.
You'll notice that in most religions theres an authority which must be respected, trusted and obeyed without asking any questions and its usually that group of ppl who have made the thing up. They are just control freaks and they get away with it because they managed to make ppl believe that they shouldnt trust their own judgement so ppl can never realise its all crap.
I must hand it 2 whoever made up the whole religious thing, its an ingenious idea and is very good 4 the economy because ppl pay unimaginable amounts of money for something practically worthless simply because its classed as a religious article.
But take my word 4 it theres nothing there dont bother with it.
PS I dont object to ppl who are religious, they are welcome 2 live the way they wish as long as they dont disturb the rest of us but imho its crap