Thanks for sharing! Personally, I've had a major hate-on for Christianity in specific and organized religion in general for a few years and I'm trying to appreciate the few good bits more, to help balance out some of the acid I still hold for anybody with the gall to say that they have answers. (See what I mean?)
I know what you mean. I have met a lot of people and while some of them were rotten I think most of them were (generally) good. I've also gotten drunk with a few holy men and gotten to see just how human they are. They carry the weight of their church and often find that what their church wants to hear is that someone has the answers. These folks went to seminary and, if they spent their time well, listened people tell them for years that no one has the right answers. Some wrote their thesis around that fact. But when a mother and father whose child died in gasping silence from an asthma attack one room over while they slept soundly and they come to you for comfort, what do you give them? It's a hard world for all of us. I don't mean to preach but I live near a seminary school now and spend a lot of time with them. It's a jarring perspective.