I don’t know who opened you eyes, but it wasn’t the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth.
Do we even know the day that the apostles went to church? Aren’t we told they gathered together and shared meals? Gave to each other. Church is to build each other up in the faith, encouraging each other in God. The church is the people not the building you know....
Nope, ever hear about the reformation? Not all Protestants have catholic leanings..like I said some do, they took only a step away and I could consider them still catholics but others took more steps away and I’ve been to baptist churches..they are nothing like catholocism. Most churches around here are in strip malls or schools, no steeples to be found or stained glass either. No images of Roman Jesus on a cross, but they still have a cross sometimes, no crucifix though. I do have to admit that Christmas and Easter are part of the services...they don’t get that its not part of Christianity. What really is upsetting to me at Easter is that they do Easter egg hunts..why? But, then again deception has entered the church, that was prophecied in scripture.
No, Baptist aren’t catholic, not even close. Just because you came out of them doesn’t mean you are still thought of as in them...if so why does the pope want to be rejoined to them? Want’s them back?
Edit: In the world but not of the world
John 17:14-18
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.”