Your points are taken, I know what you mean and there is no need for the "wit". I think you know what I was trying to say, that the Christian faith displays many of the same elements as many cults.
Awww, that's a lovely little Vicar of Dibley scen you've painted there. I believe it to be misguided but I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince any religious person I'm right. There's a reason they call it blind faith.
Fraud is one thing. But I suppose, like the biggest cult of all, The Christian Church if people wish to join up, spaff all their money in "Tithes" and lose all sense of reality and succumb to the whims and foibles of something "Greater" than themselves then that's their own daft fault.