text: Plus, the apostles quite obviously believed that Jesus was coming back in their lifetime.  Jesus nor the apostles, including Paul, had any intention of starting a religion.  But human beings what we are, we eventually group & then we organize.  Then we have to have leader, and something we profess to (hence, The Creed -- Council of Nicaea -- 300 AD, I think).  And the RCC was up and running -- governed by men only, of course.  [Female community leaders, who had existed for at least the first century and maybe the first two centuries -- were no more.] And not unlike totalitarian governments, The RCC has been controlling us every since.  I mean, seriously,  who is going to argue with anything and/or anyone who we believe has the power to send us to eternal damnation.  I love it when someone says, "Of course, it's true -- it's in The Bible."  We ask, "How do we know The Bible is true?"  The other person replies, "The Bible says it's the True Book."  Nothing illogical about that, is there?