Don't talk rubbish! The Christian Church, Catholic and C of E, own huge swathes of land and have huge bank balances, effectively they are businesses, yet they still require contributions from parishioners every Sunday!
They are capitialism personified just like all other big businesses.
Owl, may I suggest that you take the 'Christian Church' out of the equation, and simply highlight the wealth of the RC and CofE/Anglican churches (at least here in the UK). Many Baptist/Methodist/other non-conformist groups own buildings but as I'm sure you'll agree owning property doesn't always equate with a healthy cash-flow. Those buildings have to be maintained and it is often difficult to find funders who will help with thius kind of funding.
Take our church, for instance; a large Baptist chapel some 150 years old. Everything we do - be that working with the poor, those in need of food parcels, children, elderly, ... has to be paid for by the collection that we take on a week by week basis. OK, we get donations of food for the food-bank, from other churches and one of the local supermarkets; we get a reasonable sum for our annual Gift Day collection, which will be used alternatively between supporting activities abroad (3 years ago we collected about £2000 for the 'Against Malaria Foundation' and at home - this year's appeal is for the completion of our specialist homelessness/food-bank/debt-advice/JobClub/emergency housing project (we bought the building a year ago and are in the process of renovating and rearranging it to our needs)
Go beyond the UK, and in some places, the state pays to maintain (some) churches - in France for instance, because the buildings belong to the state.
Go beyond the West and the Christian Church is often to all intents and purposes penniless.
