Romanism: The Mass and Mary

There are almost one billion people in this world that claim allegiance to the Vicar of Christ, to the Pontifex Maximus, to the Prince of the Apostles, to the Bishop of Rome, to a man from a little town that's beautiful in southern Poland named John Paul II.

I think it's relevant for you to know what you believe if you're a born-again Christian.

There're seven specific biblical reasons why I believe that Roman Catholicism is anti-biblical and also wrong. The first is the mass. The second is the role of Mary. The third is the persistent usurpation or usurping of scriptures by tradition. In other words, if you put tradition of the church in scripture in a box and shake it up and let it out, tradition will always come out on top, over the scripture; which, by the way, all of these are not merely Roman problems. In this church, we're often afflicted with tradition over the Bible. And if you think it's bad here, it's only been 165 years here. The Roman church has been around for about 1600 years, so they've had a lot longer to build their traditions. Fourthly, the fourth reason is the veneration or worship of images. The fifth reason is the falseness of the sacraments. The sixth reason is the lie of purgatory, and I couldn't think of any more polite way of saying that. And the last reason, which I think most of you will find the most fascinating (and it's always been a fascination to me), the tie of Paganism to the Roman Catholic Church.