Dan, they are evil. The church is evil. All religions are the same thing, in disguise. Our earth world is controlled by evil, not by God. Do you understand?
Furthermore, the world that you see with your eyes and feel with your senses is artificial. It is an illusion created using technology. The Christians are not Christians. The Buddhists are not Buddhists, etc. Mankind is being exploited (keyword: kind). The good are exploited by the bad.
We live in a world of energy, not a world of matter. Energy can be stored and transmitted, etc. Since energy can be transmitted from any point A to any point B, it can be used as a carrot or a stick. So, in order to get people to do what you want them to do, you need to administer both negative energies and positive energies. Do you see what I'm getting at?
Do you know the movie, "The Godfather." It is a message, and the title of the movie says it all. Our earth world is run by an organized criminal entity that falsely calls itself God.
You need to find truth and escape this place, in the same way a factory chicken should escape its factory. This earth world is bad. It is just that you can't tell because you are being drugged using some of the positive energy, like being held under a spell.