Hear my kind tone of voice encouraging you to engage. If you feel that hypocrisy gives you a free pass to avoid engaging with a very deep belief system with a

Hear my kind tone of voice encouraging you to engage. If you feel that hypocrisy gives you a free pass to avoid engaging with a very deep belief system with a philosophical head start on you of no less than centuries, and your capsule summary of the Roman Catholic church is "medieval" and "moralizing"... I would say you actually need more exposure to Catholicism, not less. Hypocrisy is a universal... so it is actually a horrible signal if you are trying to figure out what to believe. And Christianity at least has a history of facing this issue head on. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." -- Jesus, in Matthew