It comes from a disgust for what the church has become. Everyone running a church I have ever met is a greedy drifter selling everlasting life, moral high ground, or self-importance to better their ow...
Sounds to me like you're talking about a fiat church problem - where the message of the Church is increasingly influenced by State grants and consessions that are dangled in front of them. Christ rejected material gain, power & rulership when the Devil offered it. Matthew 7 proves that Christ will say to the Church "I never knew you, get away from me you workers of lawlessness." Without this understanding, I too would have been put off "Christianity" and become an atheist. A life without your Lifegiver is no life.
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