you wrote:
“Sounds cult-like to me.”
And I’ve met liberal Protestants who think John 14:6 sounds “cult-like”.
Look, my FRiend, liberal Protestants are perhaps more screwed up than the Catholic organization. They bring nothing to the table but their philosophical fantasies. Fools like Marcus Borg and the so-called "Jesus Committee" cannot find their butts with both hands.
My point was not to defend the abberations, the outlyers, the true cults. I don't actually consider the RCC a "cult" in the formal sense. I see, however, that remarks such as Boniface made "cult-like". The exclusivity and pre-eminence of Rome is something not supported by the Scriptures. Sorry. That is a fig-newton of the organization's imagination. That is what makes it "cult-like". It loves itself, it promotes itself, even most of the threads around here are about "Look at all the recruits we have from other groups claiming to be Christians."
To make such claims is self-aggrandizing and wrong. Especially when it cannot rid itself of sacerdotalism, indulgences, purgatory, mariolatry, the sacraments, candles, chants, genuflecting, crossing oneself, and a host of other blasphemous concepts. When the RCC denounces itself, the believing world stands ready to welcome it back with open arms.