This rant brought to you by hearing an account of how Korean churches, especially the Catholic Church in Korea, were active participants in the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 (and in the subsequent democracy movement). They were up-to-date on the situation in Gwangju in real time and were responsible for spreading the information out past the military barricades. They also took in people who had escaped the carnage to hide them away from the military and police, putting people up in cathedrals and sequestering women students in convents.
I do not ask anyone to have warm fuzzy feelings for Catholicism, or to deny the Catholic Church's crimes or put away their trauma because of this. All I'm saying is that life is complex and many different things can be true at once, and theorizing about the nature of religion or whatever does very little to illuminate what people actually live through all over the world.