50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church

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45. I think perhaps

Joseph McCabe would interest you especially 'The Popes And Their Church.'

"OF all the fictions which still shelter from the storm of modern criticism under the leaky umbrella of "Catholic Truth," the legend of the divine foundation of the Papacy and the Papal system is quite the boldest and most romantic. No divine force, but a pitifully human series of forgeries and coercions, of pious frauds and truculent ambitions, perpetrated in an age of deep ignorance, built up the Papal power, hierarchy, and creed."

It was written at the turn of the 18/19th Century and parts are a little archaic and his politics perhaps are now outmoded but the bulk of his work in dissembling Catholic myths can be a delight at times. The murder and disgusting behaviours in fighting over the Papacy in it's early years would have made Al Capone blush, all told with a seriously dry and dark British humour I found a delight. The very Catholic G.K. Chesterton did not find him amusing which is some sort of recommendation in itself.

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/popes_and_church/PandC-begin.html