I want everyone to be critical of whatever every spokesperson says - especially when it comes to religious spokespersons. These people (priests, bishops, and the pope) hold a power that can sway many people's minds, and because of that these people should be held more accountable for what they say. Unfortunately for us, many of them don't have minds that are open: they are but mere parrots for the Orthodoxy to which they have sworn allegiance to; parrots for the Orthodoxy that has trained them to BE unthinking, unquestioning zealots.
So in trying to figure out a "fix" - no matter how minor it may be - I think it is pointless to ask clergymen