History doesn’t lie.
Ah, but history
can lie. Muslims and leftists revise history all the time. Big, powerful, autocratic religious systems can do that, and have. Witness how for many centuries the Donation of Constantine was believed and used to leverage added temporal powers for the Holy Roman Empire, before it was found to be a forgery. That kind of exposure of falsehood is what happens when
real historians dig down to the bare-bones primary sources, occasionally finding the history we thought was true to be mostly wishful thinking. Peter Lampe's work, From Paul to Valentinus, is just such a work, and in it he reveals, from the un-lying history of primary sources, that there was no unified, monarchical Roman See for approximately the first 160 years of Christianity.
See:
http://www.amazon.com/From-Paul-Valentinus-Christians-Centuries/dp/0800627024/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413047689&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=From+Paul+to+Valentinius
So the claim that Catholicism came later (meaning it is essentially schismatic) is well grounded in history. In the beginning, we were all just Christians. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get back to that?
Peace,
SR