I wondered why something as important as this was never mentioned in scripture until it dawned on me that he wasn't there....wasn't anywhere near there....at any time, and the whole idea was generated in an attempt to prove up Catholic doctrine. It's laughable now.....as most fairy tales are to me.
The laughable part, of course....is you folks telling us that Babylon is Rome.....and ignoring what scripture really tells us about Peter's whereabouts.
Good; glad it makes you feel warm and fuzzy.
and the whole idea was generated in an attempt to prove up Catholic doctrine.
One little problem: The early Christians (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Eusebius, and many others) give testimony that Peter was in ROME, not the literal city of Babylon. They had the Scriptures, and could read that Peter said that he wrote from "Babylon." Yet the Fathers were already saying he was in Rome at a time before Christianity was legal and before anybody was challenging that Peter was in Rome; there was not a pressing need to "prove Catholic doctrine" as you claim... instead it was to spread the Faith and to defeat the random heretical movements cropping up.
I think Marshmallow's explanations about the presuppositions that we bring into these discussions applies to you as well. See post #149.