"Give (it) up to a higher power."
Please help some of our Christian brothers in here wake up and realize they're part of an authoritarian death cult. This should be the first conspiracy they learn about before moving on to advanced theory like vaccines and what shape the earth is.
If you can't figure out you're being manipulated and lied to in an effort to confiscate 10% + of your income, please take a moment to understand that God doesn't need you money and none of it goes to help those who truly need it.
Some does and some types don't. We can't make a blanket assertion covering all.
But organized religion usually is a means of control over the population. It may not start tht way but it gets corrupted to that over time. The power of its leaders goes to their heads. Also, control freaks too often either start branches or rise to the top of one.