A lot of Christians truly believe that he wants us to stop "sinning." OK, so then who decides what a sin is? Millions upon millions of US Christians still think homosexuality and abortion are sins. Ergo, Jesus wants to stop those things. Ergo, money should go to groups working accordingly.

No real mystery here, just people motivated by their faith, which specifically cannot be contradicted by any facts, or else it wouldn't be faith.

As even believers right here on DU have told us.

I'm not feeling it, somehow...

But the question is, do the benefits outweigh the costs?

Which society does religion benefit? When religion forces itself on a society that does not welcome it, I see harm, not benefit. And that has been the story so many times - a story that is still ongoing.

Yeah, that's about what I thought.

I have not seen that, personally, but so I am told.

Then every example to the contrary can be dismissed. While you also simultaneously claim that you totally aren't defining religion for anyone else.

Such a thing does not exist. What is true for one religion is false for another. Since that is the case, no religion is universally true. All are based on ancient texts and myths. We can no longer even know the sources of those texts, so we cannot determine what caused them to be created.

There is no "true religion." It is a contradiction in terms.

Argle-bargle