“Saying that the church was discredited by sin is like saying that the ark was discredited by the flood.”
- G. K. Chesterson
Get it? The Church needs sin. Sin is what keeps the Good Ship Religion ruling the High Seas of Culture. No sin, no religion.
But then, that’s an impossible utopia anyway as sin is inborn in man. Anti-Christians like to bash the Church on that, but of course the Church is right. Not that we are born in sin, but that sin is born in us. To be human is to sin. Sin is part of the human experience. It will be with us for as long as there are people.