The theory goes like this: Just a few centuries after Christ\'s death, around the time the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, the true Faith suffered a catastrophic falling-away, so obscured by worldliness and pagan idolatry, kicking off the Dark Ages of Catholicism, That Christianity required a complete reboot.
This idea of a "Great Apostasy" is one of the cornerstones of American Protestantism, along with Mormonism, the Jehovah\'s Witness.
This theory is popular]] but it\'s also fiction.
The theory goes like this: Just a few centuries after Christ\'s death, around the time the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, the true Faith suffered a catastrophic falling-away, so obscured by worldliness and pagan idolatry, kicking off the Dark Ages of Catholicism, That Christianity required a complete reboot