It reared its ugly head in England. Check out John Milton. He wrote tracts against the episcopacy. Marx and the enlightment era went from there. You need no hierarchy...it’s just me and my bible.
We hear that same cry from Obama and Hillary! Sadly, Baptist and Evangelicals comply wholly. They don’t seem to realize that this was meant to destroy Christianity! That’s not to say in this country...many a Catholic has fallen for this as well. Destroy Peter...destroy Christianity. How clever is the enemy of humanity.
Reading through history, it’s easy to understand why some would feel this way with bad Catholic clergy and bad Catholics and so I’m not pointing fingers.
But like Peter, we have to look beyond that regardless if the Pope, the clergy, and the people aren’t the best...her teachings are perfect. John 6:68 - Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
The Catholic Church is Christ’s...not ours. Keep fighting for Our Lord and his Catholic Church...God is truth and the truth is HIS CHURCH regardless of us sinners.
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
The Truth is/are the words that God preserved for us in his scriptures...We know God thru his words, not some failed, corrupt institution which calls itself the Catholic religion...