text: I believe the faith, as delivered in Scripture, is sound, but many throughout history have taught and practiced distorted versions of it for power and personal gain. While Christ taught that the higher up you are in leadership, the more important real humility, and not even giving the appearance of evil are, look through the ages at how much of church leadership used their positions in corrupt ways, and taught corrupt doctrine to support that. I guess that your "1800 years ago" mark was Constatine officially adopting "Christianity". Many are right with God in spite of leadership's abuses, and I do believe there are more preachers than you do holding to sound doctrine and practice... (And there are also cult groups who believe only they know real doctrine, but carefully comparing their teachings against Scripture reveals their errors - just because they can easily find fault with parts of Catholic doctrine and practice, or others with false doctrine, doesn't mean they're right either).