You can answer all of your triffling questions by looking in a mirror, and examining your own heart.
They reflect your resistance to throwing off the world, as Yeshua demanded. Others have the same resistance to the dismantling of their nicolaitan position of priviledge, Protestant as well as catholic.
I’m sorry. Nobody regards Hislop as authoritative on anything. His conclusion that Semiaramis was married to Nimrod has no corroborating evidence. His conclusion that Nimrod was black has no corroborating evidence. His conclusion that Semiaramis was white has no corroborating evidence. His conclusion that Semiaramis sang as a soprano!, is fanciful nonsense.
And yet, you would have others believe that we should trust the ramblings of a malicious fabricator when it concerns the Catholic church.
But go on. Tell us all how you’d rather believe a fraud than the truth.