EV, When Peter was in Rome, and was slain, there was no such thing as the Catholic church, and Peter was NOT the first Pope. That is an invention of the minds of the organizers of the Catholic denomination to lend a, false, legitimacy to their efforts.
If you think, for one moment, that a man that wears a dress, a funny hat, and takes the money from a following that is, at least,50% impoverished, and surrounds himself in precious metals, jewels, extremely fine dining, and art work worth millions, if not billions, is closer to God than any other human being that believes in Him, is a fool. For one man, with his minions all over the world, to place himself in the position of the only direct access to God, is blasphemy. |
