You are more than welcome to rant to your heart’s content about the Catholic Church. It is a very popular pastime enjoyed by millions around the world.
And, in the midst of your rant, you did answer the question: Calvin would NOT, in fact, recognize what Protestantism has developed into over the centuries.
Thank you for answering the question.
Now, please, carry on about how the Catholic Church is the root of all that is evil in the world. I’m rather enjoying it.
If you look at my posting here, or on other pages, I have never claimed the Church under the Bishop of Rome is the root of all evil. I also don’t accept that it is Christ Church Catholic, as logically you must too, if you accept your Church’s teaching that there are Christians separated from Rome, but, still Christians. If the universal Church is identical to the Roman Catholic Church in totality, than there cannot possibly be Christians outside of Rome...the argument which up until the 20th Century, was standard dogma in the Roman Church. Logically speaking, once you accept as Christians, persons NOT affiliated with Rome, you prove you believe in some sort of invisible Church, known fully only to her Lord Jesus.
As long as civilizations recognize religious freedom...there simply will be no one organizational Church. It is human nature to fracture—and the only reason the Roman Catholic Church was unified for over 1000 years (even then it wasn’t...Eastern Orthdoxy’s Great Schism of 1054, after all) was due to government coercion, and one state recognized Church...i.e. a lack of religious freedom.
After having taken time to grapple with the original text posted, I also take issue with you writing it off as a “rant.” I simply find his argument that “modern evangelicalism is not what Calvin envisioned, therefore Rome must be right” a deficient one.