The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church are legitimate churches of Christ. Both have apostolic sucession, even though the Orthodox Church broke away from the true Church, which is the Roman Church, and they share the same sacraments. Protestantism on the otherhand is a heresy.
As did the Coptic and the Syriac. Why? Because of doctrinal differences. No different than the Protestants. By your logic then all the other branches of the Catholic church are heretics.
The problem with you and other members of the RCC is your continued arrogant heresy that you are the one ‘true Church’ and that all the others need to bow to your Supremacy. What I see is one arrogant and contentious division attempting with great pride to assert itself over the other branches of Christianity.
What I will counter is that the members of the RRC need to humble themselves, knock off the bravado and swagger, accept their place and role, and minister to their flock, and quit trying to jockey for position and usurp leadership that doesn’t belong to them. Learn to stop trying to be the greatest, and start learning to be the least.
And they do NOT share the same sacraments. More RCC delusions.
That is one of the saddest and dumbest statements I have ever read anywhere. You really need to study the "Bible" and see just how important "apostolic succession" is in your salvation or God's plan.
Seriously, institutions and people are fallible but God is not. Maybe if you love God you should change your focus to God and his word and not the Catholic Church and ritual. Your soul deserves more than blind faith in tradition and apostolic succession.... it deserves God....and in His own words.
You are blindly following an institution when God has provided you with a map of how to follow Him in His own words. He would not have done that if he wanted you to blindly follow a group of people without question. You are not a lemming, you are a man given the tools by God to question and get out of any situation or institutions that do not follow his word and yet you put an institution of fallible men before God and tell others they are heretics...what a sad joke.