It's kind of a shame that protestants throw away the Catholic Church, its ties to Jesus, and its ties to miracles and decide to believe in the beginnings of the Church but decide it became heresy randomly after it gets more established.

Especially the acknowledgement that Jesus was passing his church onto Peter, but ignoring the part where then Jesus said only Peter had the authority to pass it on after, and so on and so on....but I guess no one after Peter then counts...for some reason.

I think most of it must come from people just hearing how the Catholic church does things from detractors trying to discredit it, and not actually experiencing it themselves.