We like sinners, but not THAT much

What is the purpose of the church? Of Jesus's death on the cross? Of the idea of original sin? If I may humbly assume that I've understood the whole idea, none of us is free from sin, which is why Jesus needed to die. Our relationship with the church and the sacrament of Communion exist as ways of bringing his forgiveness to us sinners born 2000 years after he died.

Right?

Nah. The world's churches want us to take that with a grain of salt.

Some -- like many of the evangelical types in my homeland -- have quite simply become clubs into which the only most (seemingly) my-shit-don't-stink non-sinners are allowed and all others who deviate from their idea of Christian perfection are shunned. A club where only people that don't exist, according to the club's charter, are allowed. Heaven forbid they step down from their high horses in order to actually act according to God's word and accept fellow sinners into the flock, attempting to help them, rather than persisting in the weekly round of patting each other on the back for being squeaky clean that allows them a sweet amnesia over how very un-perfect they are the rest of the week.

The Catholic church in Brazil apparently has a less restrictive entrance exam, where child rapists are still within the stomachable level of sin, but health care providers that take proper care of abused children are just going to have to start their own little club in hell: Excommunicated doctor hailed for abortion on child rape victim.

That's okay, excommunicated doctors, being in with the in-crowd isn't all it's cracked up to be.