Musket, I think your statement is short on both factual data and logic - not to mention unfair.

Everyone who witnesses injustice has both a moral right and a moral duty to speak out against injustice. There is no "fitness test" to determine whether a person or group is of sufficient moral fitness to speak out against injustice. If such a fitness test existed, we all would fail. So, are you saying that since I'm Catholic, I have no right to question the American addiction to mass incarceration?

The Catholic Church is mostly out of the business of passing judgment on the morals of others, although individuals within the Catholic Church may think otherwise and may claim that right to themselves. Those people are widely known as "hypocrites." I suppose, though I have to admit that I have passed judgment on capital punishment and mass incarceration and racism and corporate greed and militarism, and I find them all to be profoundly immoral. Have I no right to oppose these things, even though I may not be completely right in all my thinking?

"Brainwashing" if such a thing ever existed, is not commonly practiced in the major churches nowadays outside of certain cults.

You say, "if you scrutinise any Christian ideal, there are those who run out to defend the indefensible by questioning your integrity." Well, yes, I suppose there are idiots everywhere. I do wonder, however, what Christian "ideal" you seek to criticize.

All that being said, yes, I do admit that churches have more than their fair share of lunatics.

respectfully,

-Joe-