"However, I do appreciate your acknowledgment and rebuke of certain obvious abuses of the RCC."
Good.
Now let's talk about your particular denomination, and we will lay all of its horrors out on the table too.
Unless you're a Quaker or some tiny sect, if the history of your church goes back more than about 40 years in America then you've joined an organization that's been eyeball deep in blood and oppression. Episcopalians? Prebyterians? Lutherans? Baptists? As bloody and evil as the Catholics, historically.
Today Catholics and Protestants are not bloody and evil, but they all were, and in the process made it impossible to refer back to any particular old denomination with anything other than cringing embarrassment that one is affiliated with it.
The scythe of history cuts all ways here.
Neither Catholic Authoritarianism nor Sola Scripturalism, by themselves, ushered in ages of light. They both ushered in frantic murder, torture and death in their quest to assert authority over people who didn't buy it.
You "don't buy" my viewpoint?
So what?
I don't get points in heaven for convincing you or anyone else of anything.
I think what I think for good reasons. And when I see Christians of different denominations, including my own, behaving like brats on the playground I have no compunction at all about bringout out the evil history of all of the old Christian Churches, and stating, as a general rule, that those who live in glass houses are in no position to throw stones.