Choose Your Poison

I was listening to two radio personalities prattling on about organized religion and scientology earlier today (note that those are separate categories). They inevitably started talking about the "Free Katie Holmes" movement, and even though the talking heads had nothing positive to say about Catholicism they definitely saw Scientology as the nightmarish cult that it is.
This got me to thinking...
Which of the following things is better or worse than the others:
1) To be someone who thinks they are a good Catholic, but who publicly misrepresents articles of faith.
2) To be someone who is a bad Catholic, but represents the faith accurately.
3) To be someone who thinks they are a bad Catholic and misrepresents the faith.
4) To be someone who renounces Catholicism.

Comments

[Lindsay]

Of those options, I think 2 is the best. At least 2 knows what she isn't getting right. The worst would have to be 3, by not "doing" Catholicism right, and also not knowing what he's doing wrong. As for apostate #4, how much does he know about the faith? If he knows exactly what he's renouncing, that might actually be the best. You should know what you're rejecting before you reject it.

[John]

I'm going to rank those from least bad to worst (in my eyes)
2. Person who is a bad Catholic but somehow represents the faith accurately
3. Person who thinks he is a bad Catholic and in fact is
4. Apostate
1. Person who think they are good but misrepresents the faith