You cannot judge the entire church by one bad event. The church is full of sinners which we need to go and learn the Word. No wonder the world is messed up.
It wasn’t just one event. I’ve had several incidents with gay priests, although the one I described was by far the worst.
I mean honestly, it all started when I was 7, and the Catholic school that I attended protected the pedophile husband of the after school lady that all the children were bused to after school. They protected him, continued to send children to him.
So you could say that i have a bit of a personal bugaboo with stuff like this.
But even after stopping church attendance, I have unfortunately met several other people who I would describe as overtly religious, and as you said, they are definitely sinners.
And the one that is the most pious, wears religion as a disguise, and praises the Lord’s name as often as humanly possible, is a disgusting sexual predator on young learning disabled girls that he manages to get into his religious based program for troubled young people.
Sadly the sum of this has made me cynical to religion, but it has not made me an atheist at all. I’ve just had to go my own way from these people.