Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
'twas the belief of just about every Protestant until really a century or two ago.
And what of your boy Knox? Paisley? That direct line between 'em over the last five centuries?

I wish people didn't take such knee-jerk reactions to it.

Now, I'm not saying it's the only interpretation, but IMO it looks right now to be the best.
Lord knows I'm never the last to speak evil of Rome. But I can't accept this whole Babylon stuff because it describes the Catholic Church from an internal Christian perspective.

Then again, I do not think it is all any more...erm...'at first glance contrary to common logic', than believing that three is really one, or that one can heal the wretched by talking to water and sprinkling it on them.