Why does a religious person need to dismiss the logic of nature? Who said that a religious person needs a Church? Don't forget that there were Christians before there was a Church, not the other way around. As for the first Church it was the one that was being chased after, not the one in control. As they are a lot of small Churches without any power. I think you are oversimplifying facts.
What I think is that you are speaking mostly about the Catholic Church exercising its power in some societies in which it has a lot of followers, thus power. And its followers not being real believers anymore, thus being corrupted.
So, in order to clarify, are you opinions referred to any kind of religion, the leaders of any kind of religion, the Christian religion in general, the Catholic Church's religion, the leaders or the majority of the followers of the Catholic Church, something else?