It's not only institutions of religious faith. In government and education - in any institution where self-preservation and control become hierarchically more important than caretaking and community, it can happen, right? The molecular biologist Buddhini Samarasinghe (https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25464) tells the story of climate scientists in the USA and Professor David Nutt (classifying illegal substances) in the UK and how more than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed, imprisoned, or executed for opposing the (famine-causing) Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union under Stalin. You are right to push for more honesty and self-examination. This keeps the faith alive. Faith lives when it is something we think about and reconsider, a commitment we make daily rather than unquestioned loyalty to an institutional hierarchy. Part of faith is accepting ambiguity and uncertainty as unavoidable and understanding meaning is constructed and reconstructed with each new human interaction and that's okay. Faith lives because we can question it — we can’t question something dead.