[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

When a person starts deliberately lying in their anti-Catholic diatribes, you know you are dealing with the demonic. A lot of this nonsense is based on pseudo-historical fantasies. From very early on, the early Christians have the core of Catholic beliefs and sacramental practices. The whole idea of this grand leap from the third to the sixteenth century essentially denies the whole idea of the Holy Spirit and of Christ founding the Church. I mean why stop at the sixteenth century? Why not argue we didn't "discover" ancient Christianity until the 1960s? That makes about as much sense. But then...which 16th-century or 1960s heretical/schismatic sect or cult do you choose from out of the hundreds - indeed, thousands - of possibilities? Gnostic eschatology creates more confusion than it can claim to solve. And, of course, you would have to throw out the whole canon of the Bible if you adhere to the Catholicism-as-evil theory. The whole concept of organizing the New Testament books into an authoritative canon is a product of the early "Catholic" Christians. End of story.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Well said.

[history_matters]

When a person starts deliberately lying in their anti-Catholic diatribes, you know you are dealing with the demonic.

Precisely. Spot on, Howlingly.