With all due respect, you are just parroting what you have heard about religion. None of your claims about Christianity are actually true. Are there bad apples? Of course. But for the most part, religion has a positive impact on people. So you are speaking from ignorance.
I am not going to waste a lot of time on this, since so much is documented and you seem reluctant to face your blind spots.
If you're into to apologetics, do you recall Ravi Zacharias who just died a few years back? Christianity Today even covered it. The guy was an internationally known author, apologist, and pastor/speaker. I wouldn't be surprised if you've read one of his books.
His ministry, preparing to downsize in the wake of a new investigation, expresses regret for “misplaced trust” in a leader who used his esteem to conceal his sexual misconduct.
www.christianitytoday.com
It's not like he's the only guy. They're not cherry-picking. This just happened and went national.
The pastor of a Market Common church announced his wife’s death to the congregation, pointing to her mental health issues. Her family has taken to social media to shed doubt on the cause.
www.yahoo.com
They're still hashing it out, but I believe he also divorced his first wife to groom her when she was still a teen and married her, and there's a lot of details out there about the abuse reports and anecdotes.
And where have you been for the endless coverups by the Catholic church in the United States and shuffling around of unethical pastors? This has been documented over decades, with so many settlements being paid over abuse.
Just review news about the Southern Baptists over the last decade and study all the stories of women who are speaking out or trying to leave that environment. (Beth Moore might be a great place to start.) This kind of abuse is common in authoritative communities, that creates leader and servant castes.
It seems like you like to dive down certain rabbit holes, but you have no interest in such investigations that would run counter to your held beliefs. There's no need to parrot, it's just called "news" and easily found.
If you want to witness to strangers on a non-religious web site about why you're a Christian, facing up to these kinds of issues is part of that package. Otherwise no one is interested.
There are definitely well-meaning believers of various faiths out there, who live better lives, but that doesn't mean certain power structures don't encourage abuse and attract abusers. And we're seen a huge turn of evangelicalism in the US away from the message of Jesus and instead wielding politics as power and trying to make a theocracy. Revival isn't going to make things better, it will just increase the power of zealots.
