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[–]JohnRaymond 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You're utterly wrong on secular sources. Here's one https://www.ranker.com/list/complete-list-of-popes/coffee-junkie

Jesus and apostles spoke Aramaic. You dismiss the church Fathers without a mention. Jesus said His Church would not be overcome by gates of hell which mean heresy.

So you can't name the church, its doctrines, where it is, any characteristics except vague its everywhere. Convenient.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Catholic church itself is everywhere. And that website may be secular but that specific post is definitely Catholic, or at the very least about Catholic theology. The author doesn't sound like a historian either.

[–]JohnRaymond 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Catholic Church is everywhere, but tiny remnant. 200k, not 1.2 billion.

If you don't think great majority of secular historians don't trace papacy back to Peter, you need to immerse yourself in history. People who immerse themselves in history often become Catholic.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well I did and became "gnostic". I put that in quotes because it was pretty much the ancient word for "protestant".