Too many reasons, too little time. Answers: it's bullshit, sexually repressive, hateful against everyone else, hypocritical, absolutist (except for child molester priests), cafeteria catholics, lying about accepting evolution, politically corrupt, murderous (but manages to be guilt free about that), and so much more. Even as writing this, I learn of a case of a fellow needing counseling because he was molested at 12. How about stealing hundreds of indigenous children in Canada, they treating them so badly that they are, only now, discovering mass graves behind churches. In this country, we have SCOTUS packed with Catholics who can wait to destroy millions of lives.

It was always a house of cards, the people are realizing they are the ones being dealt the bad hand.

“As they got better educated, they were less likely to follow the clergy without question”. That pretty much sums it up. A secular education, free of dogma and doctrine, has always been the church’s Achilles heel and greatest fear.