Let's not get into this, we both know the drill--you quote the first edition of St. Cyprian's De Unitate, I point to the revision that equates 'the Chair of Peter' with the episcopate, and on and on. All the moves are quite standard, we probably know them by hear, and in the end, we just disagree anyway.
I am like Earl"The Pearl" Monroe when he first got to the NBA out of Winston-Salem
But, I get ya...See, in my longanimity, I didn't even bite on your second sentence ...