You may have a point here. When the lock on "religion" was broken by the Reformation, all kinds of excessive expressions of churchianity began to emerge. Men have a tendency to run amok with everything. Certainly Long did.
I don't catch the "milkmaid" remark, however.
And, it seems that history doesn't actually connect the Roman Catholic Church to Jesus Christ, but Rome may see it that way. Review the docs and notice the turmoil around the grappling for power among the bishoprics until Rome claimed to win. It seems this was in the 300s, not from the Apostles. Then Rome drew its "line" back to Peter and jammed the flag in the ground.
Took a while, but the flag was pulled up at a later date. And I don't recall Luther, Zwingli, or Calvin claiming that their congregations were the only (C)hurch, in contrast to Rome's death rattle. There is no central "Church" now (as there never was), but rather just the Body of Christ universal over all time to include folks all the way back to Adam, Abraham, Moses, et al, elect before the foundation of the world. And there are congregations sprinkled all over the world. Some teach this well, some teach this poorly, and then there are those that don't teach it at all: Long & Rome.
Not surprising, Dr. Luther was talking about people that YOU would consider to be Christians.
And, it seems that history doesn't actually connect the Roman Catholic Church to Jesus Christ, but Rome may see it that way. Review the docs and notice the turmoil around the grappling for power among the bishoprics until Rome claimed to win. It seems this was in the 300s, not from the Apostles. Then Rome drew its "line" back to Peter and jammed the flag in the ground.
Anti-Catholics have been making these bizarre claims for a while, but they've never provided anything that even approaches truth. (And for the record, NOTHING by Lorraine Boettner counts, he doesn't even understand that anti-popes were NEVER popes.)