I understand how you feel trust me. I struggle with the flaws of my church in recent times. The priest scandles and such. But then I did research and found out the Catholic Church was #3 in scandles of abuse…#1 are independent ministers. I was stunned. I ask myself how is this possible…IS CHRISTIANITY FAILING…similar to your question.

But then I remembered that in acts the apostles argued with eachother all the time…I also remembered in the Gospel’s they had a few battles with eachother…Paul started off as a persuctor of christians, he became one of the greatest apostles.

In short they were human too. I had the exact opposite reaction to the blogs you have had. I was thrilled when I searched the blogasphere for the first time…I couldn’t believe how many christian blogs I came across…I was stunned…and happy.

You see I live in a college that is very secular…we have a core group of christians…but believe me we are way outnumbered out here…Look at the blog from another angle! Christians all over the world are being heard through words! For every person who gets mad about someone’s blog another person reads the arguement or testimony they have been searching for and for the first time they are really considering God!

What we need to do is frame our debates better. Just because we are human doesn’t mean Christian has broken or has failed. It is rather silly when you think about it! Look what the Church and Christianity has went through for around 2000 years…perscutions, rapes, genocide, wars, scandles, divisions, seperation, the death of our God, lies, corruption, ect…

and yet look at this:

There are 1.1 BILLION Catholics…let me say that again 1.1 BILLION!!!

There are over 250 MILLION baptist!

That is two denominations…I did the research on this…there are over 10,000 christian denominations (including nondenominationalists)…10,000!!!
Imagine how many christians are out there!

I can imagine St. Paul hearing us say that christianity is broken back when he first started and there were around a 1,000 converts. I think St. Paul would hit us on the head with a stick and asks if that helped clear the fog any! (If St. Peter didn’t get to us first)

We are not broken! We have around 2 Billion christians. Flawed, divided, and HUMAN. If the apostles didn’t always get along, come on we are going to have our fights to. So the answer is not to say we fight to much (We know that), we are divided (we got that down to), or whatever.

The answer is to lead by example…that is what I am trying to do. Here is part of the entry from my recent post to explain why Catholics don’t believe Jesus had brothers or sisters. (Controversal topic right!)

“I have been planning this for some time…I want to give people a grasp of what, and the why, Catholics believe. So I am going to do it in multiple entries. This is not meant to convert, but if it does then God bless and welcome, it is meant to be informational. You are welcome to argue and debate or just comment, but please keep the arguments semi-reasonable and respectfull! Sorry this is going to be long…to present a good defense of this belief some length is required.”

and then I ended it with:

“Please comment on what you like…keep it civil and Catholics remember this is not to prove how right we are…it is to show that we didn’t just come up with this out of thin air! Its Informational. Remeber we are the body of the same Christ…May God unite us agian someday! God Bless!”