Is it normal to have a religion, but disliking it's current structure?

That being said, somethings, such as common sense morals, dont need to come from a book or from some made up god. I am a very morally driven person. But i dont believe in god. I do what is right because i truly believe it and that it is the way i would also like to be treated. Not because i think i might go to some theme park in the sky if i do, or to hell if i dont.

Religion is man-made. If you don't like those religious leaders etc then you don't like the religion. Why not just leave it? It's all just a bunch of crap and lies anyway.

Yur life,your rules. Faith is a very personal thing, my own views are a bit of a mix between Christianity and a few pointers from other religions Seeing as most religions seek peace and good heartedness (Fighting your animal nature) its not that odd.

Lol I recall this one time our preacher said id asked him some of the most difficult questions hed ever heard from a high school age church member

Why don't you just make a christian religion? Everything Christian broke off for this reason. It started with kind henry.

Thats why I dont Go to church regular I believe you can follow God outside any Church I just list my faith as Christian and pray at Home and read the Bible and worship.

Try reading this post any mine and other comments on religion.

http://isitnormal.com/poll/has-anybody-ever-studied-buddhism-161923/#comment-1581101

Basically I believe that people spirituality is theirs to discover, and often be a mix and match of multiple religions and idealogies.

Go tu church fukin piece off shit nonbeliver

I think it's the same with pretty much any other religion as well: you can be as devoted as you wish, but if you are happy with it's structure and the use mankind makes of that belief, then you are not being honest with yourself.

You don't have to be a member of a particular religion to believe the same things they do. I know plenty of Catholics who are this same way (I went to a Catholic high school and have a large extended family of all Catholics so I know a fair few).

The CC seems to me to be beyond repair at this point with corruption all the way at the top and no way to have it removed as authority is hierarchical.

As for whether or not this is normal, I like to think so. Quite a bit of today's society is at least marginally about individuality (even if the majority seems to only follow a few individuals), which leads people to question authority (government, churches, traditional ways of thinking) and results in people in your situation and unfortunately hipsters as well.

By the way, I would encourage you to reconsider your dislike of the authority members of the CC. Hate seems much more appropriate given some of their actions in Africa with AIDS, globally with child molestation and their extreme stances on abortion, and the massive hypocrisy they're guilty of on a grand scale (the whole golden palaces thing).

I was raised Catholic but I really don't agree with the way the Church is being run. Like so many other institutions, it is corrupt from the ground up. Every time I check the news there is another scandal breaking out, and it makes me really ashamed to call myself Catholic. I have tried to become an atheist or at least agnostic, but those ways of thinking just feel wrong to me and don't make much sense to me. I don't want to become a Protestant either, because even though I don't like the scandals in the Church, I still love the way the services are run and I follow the beliefs. So I will stay a reluctant Catholic.

Very much so. Too many people abuse the bible, misinterpret it, and take things out of context. And there are too many bad-hearted people who call themselves "Christians."
And there is a reason there was a Protestant Reformation to detach themselves from everything they disliked about the Catholic church.

More people need to think this way In my opinion

It is a actually not very common to think the way you do. Most people just follow the heard and dont think critically. They will just go along with all the bad things because they want to take the path of least resistance. The catholic church is and has always been a gang of corrupt and hypocritical aholes. Religion in general is nothing but a scam, but the catholics do it best, right behind them is the muslims. God is nothing but a man made fantasy to make people feel better about the world we live in. Religion uses this further and basically takes advantage of weak minded people, turning them into minions to carry out an idea. Dont follow the same old crap humans have been sucked into for the entirety of our existence. Think for yourself