All valid criticisms here, and I agree with most. Based on what your saying I’m guessing your talking about the Protestants.

Look into the early church same Catholic/Orthodox church for a thousand years.

Good place to start:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qSE7UMQlus7XbMNTqVO2p?si=jYkXuqgiQiWM6cKpqbucGA

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There are some better people there, still lots of issues. Huge sexual hangups, lots of denial, lots of authoritarianism supposedly justified with scripture.

Realize everything man does fails to comparison to the ideal, we live in a fallen world full of sin (the Church included), and especially in our retarded age. The attitudes and actions of the average man should not be your main focus but the truth and your relation to it which is independent. If you want examples of lives well lived read the lives of the saints. Like you said earlier should can only focus on what we can control, which in this context, is your own repentance, and relationship with the divine.