something tells me ES is a Ellen White devotee, so you can see where the distaste for the Church comes from.
very sad.
If you think Ellen Gould White is bad, you should realize a lot of this stuff comes from the insane rantings of a Scottish madman by the name of Hislop. He ties every quirky thing ever found in Europe to the Zoroastrians, turning the very nature of Zoroastrianism on its head so it seems more like Catholicism, and vice versa.
So, he makes the “Courtesan (prostitute) of the Gods” into a virgin, the slayer of Tammuz into his lover, etc.
The crazy thing, of course, is that Zoroastrianism, at least as it existed once transplanted into Rome and updated to counter Christianity, bears far more similarity to certain aspects of Christianity that aren’t particularly Catholic than to those which are. Many early Christians (and C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein) explain this by asserting that Christianity is the true myth, and that Zoroastrians received glimpses of the truth, which they perverted due to their own sinfulness. Now, we know that the Romans were weaving elements of Christianity into an older religion, much the way New Agers have made Druidism and other pagan religions much more acceptable to modern sensibilities.