Some perspective:—

Catholic author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, Summer of the Red Wolf, and many other excellent novels, not all of a religious nature), wrote in his spiritual memoir, A View from the Ridge about his religious upbringing and his eventual disenchantment with the church, and asks such questions as "How can individual values coexist with inflexible institutions?" and "Why are church hierarchies unlike Jesus?" Someone once asked him about when he left the church. He responded, "I didn't leave the church. The church left me."   

Don Firth