Dropping Out?

I hear people say that they are leaving the Church because of the politics of it all.  Well, why not look at some other branch of our Church.  It is a big church.  The Roman model is just one model.  It focuses on authority and uniformity.  There are Eastern Christian groups that do not have this focus.  Some of them are even in union with Rome, but with a theology that is much more wisdom oriented and less narrowly doctrinal in their focus. Our Roman model grew up because of certain historical circumstances, that other parts of the early Christian world did not suffer.  Take a look at Syrian Christianity, while there are still some Syrians practicing it!