Ok, so what did Chick say that's so wrong? You list his statements but not his sources, nor do you present any evidence to prove him wrong. Do I think that the Vatican has a mainframe with my name in it? I don't think so, but I don't know that they don't as a fact.
What I DO know as a fact is that the Catholic church commited innumerable atrocities, one of shich is called the "Inquisition." Another is the attempted invasion of England with the FULL SUPPORT of Pope what's-his-face the six-hundredth-sixty-sixth. He "excommunicated" Queen Elizabeth, and the "Invincible Armada" was chock full of every imaginable sort of torture instrument for the Inquisition of England. Pray tell, where in the Bible do you find an "Inquisition"? MY Bible tells me to reject a heretic, NOT BURN HIM!
I fear that you people, under the guise of "eccumenicalism," have allowed yourselves to become wishy-washy in your beliefs. I can understand Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and all those to allow and leave room for Catholic teachings, but you claim to be BAPTISTS. Do you even believe the BIBLE?? That is the foundation of SALVATION and TRUE Christianity. If your beliefs don't line up with the Bible, then you are WRONG. (by the way, that's not an opinion)
I cannot find "good" idolatry, calling someone a "father," forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, pediatry, nuns, friars, cardinals or popes in the Bible as anything good. Sure, I can find you Scriptures on those, as well as "The Queen of Heaven," but those things are NEVER mentioned in a good light. I am part of the Bride of Christ, and Israel is (spiritually) God's estranged wife; Nuns don't "marry God." Peter died in Jerusalem, and was married, so he certainly wasn't the first pope. Praying to any image is SIN. God says that forbidding to marry (priests) and commanding to abstain from meats (Lent) are DOCTRINES OF DEVILS. (take a hint)
Do you know what Jesus said to do to a child molester? You're not going to like this....
the LORD Jesus Christ said:
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
(Matthew 18:6)
Oh, by the way, I have broken no rules, so you're going to have to do some real stretching to get me in trouble for this one. I stated FACTS and Scripture. Like Karl Marx said, "Facts are stubborn things."