Questions about Taoist priests and monks?

Nowadays, monks and Taoists are required by some people's occupations and countries. Secondly, some people become monks for their beliefs. You cultivate spiritual sustenance. As for the role of religion in the country, it depends on the relative relationship between religion and the country. If the state controls religion, then religion is a tool, which can control people's ideology, and religion controls the state, then the state becomes one of the tools for religion to collect money. If indigenous religions control this country, then this country is what the United States calls a "hotbed of terrorist organizations." .