Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness
[21] ...For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretense of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start out of the ruins of that heathen power.
[22] The language also which they use (both in the churches and in their public acts) being Latin, which is not commonly used by any nation now in the world, what is it but the ghost of the old Roman language?
[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.
[24] The ecclesiastics are spiritual men and ghostly fathers. The fairies and ghosts inhabit darkness, solitudes, and graves. The ecclesiastics walk in obscurity of doctrine, in monasteries, churches, and church-yards.
Again, I find myself in disagreement... If the Catholic Church is in fact "the Whore of Babylon", she is destined for doom along with her daughters... Uh-oh... that would be the Protestants, wouldn't it?
To be clear, I too am a Protestant (Orthodox Presby, if any affiliation), and I am not convinced that our Catholic brethren have it "right". But neither am I convinced that ANY have it right, Catholic, Protestant Catholic, or otherwise.
But ALL of Christendom springs from the Catholic root, with a possible nod to the Coptic and Greek Orthodox- We are ALL in deep trouble if the Catholic Church is the evil you speak of.
The root of Rome that I refer to is the hedonistic and socialistic state- That set of conditions in a godless government that allow the total power and usurpation of power needed for an emperor to come into being.
The evil religion, IMHO, the one which truly carries the pantheon of fallen angels ("gods") forward into today quite literally ran down the other leg of the Roman Empire. Islaam fits that bill far better than the Catholics.