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No it's pretty much the view of all Christians ... who believe their group is right and everybody else's group (most of the Christians) is wrong. It's a very popular opinion, by supposed insiders, that Christianity is a mess.
That's too funny. I'm not buying. How can you know everything God is doing by reading multiple news sources on the internet? Anyways, I no longer listen to the view of those "who believe their group is right and everybody else's group is wrong." I thought we left that nonsense years ago.

It's not the dark ages because of the secular state. The secular state rose up and threw some fixes at Christianity ; stripped it of it's political power, but couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together. So Christianity stays a mess. It's a conviction. What do you expect? Thank God, or rather the secular state, for the fixes so far.
I don't think some "secular state" has fixed anything in the church. If Christianity was always the "mess" you say it is, then it would have died off centuries ago. Who would pay attention to such a mess? You apparently spend too much attention examining the tares, and not the Lord Himself, who indwells the wheat.

Hard to tell where the crazy begins, and where it ends. I guess I wouldn't have that trouble if I just stuck to one news source.
God is doing an invisible work, like I said "not by observation," in His believers. This world is all chaotic, and it even affects the people of God, but if you think the children of God are too messed up to spend time with, what is the alternative? trusting the government? trusting your own resources? trusting mother earth?