Why leave the Church due the all-to-human shortcomings of her leaders? Didn’t Our Lord predict as such? Christ was there all the time, but you’ll set yourself up for constant disappointment if you depend on the hierarchy for that presence.
I left because of the institution’s short comings. I never put my hopes and dreams in flawed human beings. Now I belong to a very simple, Bible reading, Bible following church in West Philly (filled with flawed men and women), and my life is changed.
We are looking at the great sifting. Go read Michael O’Brien’s latest and see if you are reading it the same way I am.
“His term of office is now underway and he is facing numerous domestic and foreign crises, including the financial collapse, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps soon a war with Iran. These, along with the monetary problems between the U.S.A. and China, may prove to be too great an obstacle, and could even bring about Obama’s defeat at the next presidential election. Alternatively, he could become the “Great Facilitator”, negotiator, peace-maker, working marvels throughout the world as he moves from one seemingly unsolvable problem to another. At this early stage, it is difficult to say which it will be.
What is undeniable is that in his domestic policies Obama is pursuing his promised agenda of radical changes to American laws—for example, those that until now have provided some protection for pre-birth children. Now, all resistance is to be swept away,”
Globalization and the New World Order
http://studiobrien.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=183&Itemid=1