You've been a seminarian?
Close, I’m married to one. She would agree. Liberalism had crept into the seminaries by the late 1950s and that bit of leaven has spoiled the whole lump. Compare the pathetic state of the church in the US to that of Communist China. The latter is thriving, the former is mostly a joke. I submit Francis Chan’s Letters to the Church for starters.
I’m talking about everything from mainstream religions to evangelical megachurches. At worst the whole system is an outright perversion of the church as modeled in Acts, at best it’s only a luke-warm facsimile. The cities are strewn with church buildings hanging rainbows for cryin’ out loud and there’s virtually no Christian outrage. Why? Because people have put their faith in the intellectualism of the apostate-church leaders. “Why, they have to be right, they’re ‘theologians, they went to seminary.”
What else besides intellectualism teaches an individual to exalt themselves in robes and costumes and feel like “yeah, this is normal?” Or perform the same rituals week after week and call that “holiness?” Cathedrals and other church buildings were never the intent, which is why, in my opinion, God put an end to the mega-church concept in 70 AD by destroying the temple and leaving no stone upon stone.