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Devout Irish Catholic family, 9 years of Catholic school, communion, confirmation, altar boy, the whole 9 yards.
I started questioning my faith in my 20's. I started searching out alternative viewpoints and found them. I finally realized my church knew absolutely nothing, they were just making it up as they went along.
Did you ever play Jenga? That was what it was like for me. One by one a piece would be removed until the whole damned thing came crashing down.
The priestly pedophile scandal was the camel's straw for me. God's representatives on earth were more concerned about protecting their power, authority and money then protecting the souls entrusted to them. They were just like everyone else.
It was very painful but in the end a very liberating experience.
God's representatives on earth are far beyond your measly description. They are just like what you described in only one fashion they are just like everyone else. In what's important we are all fallible but in other methods some are hero's beyond compare. You need but open your eyes to see the wonder of variability that is creation. Don't be so limited in your scope of defining life.