First, many Christians (literally every Christian I've ever known) would agree that megachurches have lost their way and that the people in charge are in no way fit to be leaders among God's people. You're preaching to the choir. Second...
> in the name of a religion that commands its followers to give everything they have to the poor.
This isn't actually true. The point of this story (as with a lot of things Jesus did) is that the standards for us to be righteous on our own merit is impossibly high, but that God in his mercy will forgive us anyway. That's why the next bit says that Jesus' disciples asked "who then can be saved?", and Jesus replies that with God, all things are possible. To be righteous in our own merits we would have to take extreme steps like selling all our material possessions (and more), but we don't have to because of God's grace.
That said, we are explicitly commanded to care for the poor and other downtrodden members of society. Not being required to sell all our possessions is not a pass to just ignore the poor, or to half-ass our efforts towards them. It's just that we aren't actually commanded to sell all our possessions.
> in the name of a religion that commands its followers to give everything they have to the poor.
This isn't actually true. The point of this story (as with a lot of things Jesus did) is that the standards for us to be righteous on our own merit is impossibly high, but that God in his mercy will forgive us anyway. That's why the next bit says that Jesus' disciples asked "who then can be saved?", and Jesus replies that with God, all things are possible. To be righteous in our own merits we would have to take extreme steps like selling all our material possessions (and more), but we don't have to because of God's grace.
That said, we are explicitly commanded to care for the poor and other downtrodden members of society. Not being required to sell all our possessions is not a pass to just ignore the poor, or to half-ass our efforts towards them. It's just that we aren't actually commanded to sell all our possessions.