Uhh no? Back in the day the Pope was the most powerful man in the world. He could literally do/say anything he wanted and the people would take it as a message from god, thats when it was all about money and control. nowadays i feel like religion, for the most part, provides people with guidance, comfort, hope, morality, etc. Of course there are the extremists that take things way too far and the people that try to shove their religion down your throat whenever possible but the vast majority isn't like that.
and this is coming from someone who has never been to church/doesn't identify with any one religion. I do however think there is something out there greater than us, a "great consciousness" or w/e you want to call it.
also, for the kids that are saying "read the bible", I'm willing to bet that the majority of religious people don't take the bible word for word as fact, but use it sort of like a guidebook.