I suggest you read post 40 and post 23.
I have now done so. Post 23 is about things that happened in 1492 and 1478, which of course have no bearing on the origin question, as this was a long time after.
The St Thomas Christians are evidence of the RCs and how they destroyed other Christian religions.
If you refer to the community established in 780-823 AD, that also is well beyond the founding of the Catholic Church, and therefore not relevant to the origin question.
The apostles never once prayed to the dead, please provide some evidence for such.
Yes, we have heard that before, and as before the answer is the same. Absence of evidence in the bible is not proof that something is wrong.
The lack of mention of things in scripture does not make it true either.
I know we have a disagreement over the epistemology of religious doctrine.
Yep it is easy to make out things are speculation when you don't like what they say.
..or when they actually are speculation.
It is typical RC justification of their false history, teachings and practices.
It is not justification of anything. It is refutation of something.
Saying something is speculation is not evidence.
I didn't say it was. It is simply true by examination.
By the way then we can also say and defend the true history by using your words - The lack of mention of these things is not evidence that they are not true.
Where have Catholics ever used the lack of mention of something as justification for a belief?
It is not laughable at all and it is what it did. So you are denying the evidence of the control and political power of the RCC.
No. I am only denying the power that no earthly organization has ever had - to totally erase all records of such a huge thing as 300 years of Christianity.
Really. I mean one pope had a king stand in the snow for 3 days.
Did that erase all written record of the event? Obviously not, since you know about it.
All winners had such power and that is an historical fact.
No, they never have had such power. Even when the winners dominate the historical record, there is still subculture comprised of the losers who remember and pass it down so that it is eventually revealed. But even now, when non-Catholic churches have comparable political power, that missing historical record still has not surfaced.