#papism

▪Murdered previous Popes

▪Sold the Papacy

▪Installed a harem and gave its members de facto power to rule the citizenry

▪Raped pilgrims

▪Covered for the rape of children

▪Sold indulgences

▪Engaged in Papal orgies

▪Complained that those tortured did not scream loudly enough

▪Had a corpse exhumed, “tried”, and mutilated

This man with the glasses is a "Good Catholic." If the Roman Catholic Church really is the one and only Church of Jesus Christ, then he's actually right in what he says, and he's doing a service to others by talking this way.

But, listen to him.

Does this sound like a man who loves Jesus Christ? Who even loves his fellow man? Who has concern for the souls of those he claims to believe are lost? Who evidences the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5)? This is a man who is manifesting something, but it would be very difficult to convince anyone, atheist or religious, that it's the Spirit of God.

His own arguments aren't even internally consistent. He's transparently unfamiliar with the Scriptures. He brags with pride about keeping the Commandments and earning his acceptance from the Almighty. He rages against the idea that anyone else - even Jesus Himself - would dare take credit for what he's "earned." He is self-righteousness personified.

This is a man saying, "Shut Up, Outsource Your Thinking, And Conform."

That's what Roman Catholicism is.

That's why there was a Protestant Reformation. That's why the accompanying return to the Scriptures reshaped the entire world. It robbed the false religious powers-that-be of their sham authority.

That is why theology is a myriad times more important than authority.

Because the true Gospel, simply read and humbly understood in and from the Bible itself, alone, is "the power of God unto salvation."