I couldn't agree more about the taxes part of your post, mayconnie. Our religious institutions would be stronger if they paid taxes because they would become more outward looking and less concerned with worry that they might do something taxable.

As for schools and hospitals, there is some work that can be done there and other work that is probably at the must-change-constitution-first stage. I am not sure why people ould want to go there. Better to operate creatively in the present moment.

There is something about religions that are about how we "be" in the world. In history they have properly belonged to the poor because they have the potential to empower people who lack power, but power classes have tried to co-opt them. Right now, in the West, they are clubs that serve the wealthy. It needn't always be that way.