Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions.

If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...EVERY YEAR. FOREVER. (Total Cost of current Curiosity mission : $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billlion for spacecraft development and science investigations and additional amounts for launch and operations. )

Perhaps we should be asking questions that have to do with why we place such little importance on advancing our knowledge and more on preserving arbitrary religious orders.