The Catholic Church has been in existence for nearly 2000 years, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
So, what, you tightly cling to that often misinterpreted passage and ignore the very REAL prevalence of immorality, licentiousness, greed, love of wealth rather than love of God that exists in your church as well as many others? Nothing can ever be fixed if we pretend there is no problem.
Where do you get the idea that the gates of hell are not prevailing against your religion???
What does that mean? The word used in that verse is Hades which simply means “the unseen world”. So what does “the gates of the unseen world will not prevail against it” mean?
Please see my reply in Post 45 as it speaks to your comments, too. “The church” is those who have been “called out” by God to believe in His Son as the only personal Saviour for our individual sins. But because only God knows who all those people truly are, we must in our limited understanding and knowledge call anyone who professes a genuine belief in Jesus as their Savior a part of the Church, and we must use the word “church” in other ways, too, which are based on our limitations in this life, too.