Another rant on religion

This is just another rant on religion. I was thinking about how the Catholic Church forbids the use of birth control and at the same time abortions. If you wanted to lower the number of abortions wouldn’t it make sense to encourage the use of birth control? There’s power in numbers, and the church has been well-aware of this for a long time. It’s almost as if they’re competing with other religions, trying to come out at top with the most followers. Unfortunately many problems stem from over-populating as history shows. Even in poverty-stricken areas they still promote reproduction, so do they even care about the conditions of these people? Do they care more about how many people they save or about how many they influence? To me it seems like another business or political party, and it’s pretty clever how they structured it. Basically they provide a service which we cannot see or touch; we can’t prove its existence or inexistence. It’s human nature to fear death and what’s after, so they simply sell us what we want to hear. I’m not saying everyone who works with the church is bad, maybe naive, but some of the things they preach will do more harm than good.