Does religion do more harm than good?

There has long been whispers among those with enough balls to question such institutions for a very long time in regard to whether or not various main religious groups are using their funding, income, and power for the right purposes. This also begs the more important questions:
 - Where do they get all of this money?
 - Is power being abused?
 - Why do they get all of this money?
 - Do you seriously have that much money?
  and most importantly..

 - Is religion more harmful to society than helpful?

According to Business Insider Australia, the Catholic Church is the 3rd largest land owner in the world. Over 117 million acres of land around the world. I wonder how many homes could fit inside those 117 million acres for families that have nothing? I've read the Bible, I went to a Catholic school for just over 12 years, and I am confident that God would less prefer shrines or Churches built to worship Him in, and would much rather have the money spent on feeding and clothing homeless and hungry people. The Catholic Church and many other churches internationally do, however, contribute money to the poor and downtrodden - a huge number of charities including The Salvation Army and Childfund are actually Christian-based. The fact is though, charities actually rely on donations. Donations from the public, many of whom I'm sure don't believe in God but rather in helping their fellow man, regardless of religious convictions.

This is a perfect example of what I am trying to say. 'Bishop' Brian Tamaki is urging members of his Church (Destiny Church) to contribute $1000 per person to renovate a warehouse in South Auckland that is to eventually become his 'City of God' that will include Church facilities and a school. There were apparently even cases of families who couldn't afford to raise this money who were saying "We can't raise the money, what can we sell?". As pointed out in the article, no one should be put in that position, especially for a God who is supposed to be really in to helping out the poor. Sadly, many children even bore the brunt of this selfish demand as Pastor Martin Daly said that he loved scrolling through the Destiny Facebook page and seeing families going without Xmas presents because they were saving up for the "$1000 grand slam offering for the promised land." Yep, he actually said that. Once again, if I may speak with knowledge of the Holy Book, I firmly believe God would have preferred kids to get presents and enjoy being children, especially families with little to give in the first place, as opposed to another 'amazing-wow' building in His name.

Founding members have even left the Church as a result of the continuous, unfair demands, which only goes to show how people seem to have forgotten the original ideals of religions. It is a 2 birds-with-one-stone situation, if you are prepared to just 'change' churches it really can't mean that much to you...
BUT
How fucking dare you ask people for any more money. God must be laughing His ass off in Heaven, continuously counting all this money that's apparently for Him, right?

This is not to say, however, that ALL members of this church or others are corrupt, but light needs to be shed the corruption that is happening within an institution that should literally have no corruption at all - according to their own morals! The day religion became more about the money than the actual religion is the day this outdated idea should have been abandoned - it is clear through this that Religion is not fulfilling its original purpose of helping and making things better, and is in fact harming our societies.

Watch this for a laugh :)