If any one owes someone an apology Elvis, it is probably you.

From the get go, you confuse the Catholic church, which is actually the last visible remnant of the Roman empire and it's militia, with Christianity, when in fact it is not but rather has attempted simply to claim dominion of Christians and likewise define Christianity for the past 1800 years not excluding the the use of brutal force to do so. Christianity was a major factor in the fall of the Roman Empire, and only through brutal force, the threat of death and destruction, did the Roman Church acquire it's 'Christian'stature. Likewise through brutal force, the threat of death and destruction, has the roman church maintained this dwindling position for hundreds of years, succeeding in places and failing in others, so that through time it has assumed this role in the minds and daily lives of generation after generation, even though it actually is not.

Christians fought the roman church and died for your freedom long before America was discovered. Christians brought us the first printing presses, bibles, books and schools, much to the distress of the roman church. Christians crossed the oceans much to the distress of the Roman church, which has never had a navy that I am aware of, and in that way, almost fully succeeded in liberating themselves from it. Yet the roman church languishes on, and it's followers and patrons continue upon insisting that they represent the one true faith and non-christians continue to believe it because it is such a propoganda machine. So much of the age old anti-christian agenda is rooted right within the walls of the catholic church itself, Christians are the one group of people that the roman church have never been able to fully control.

With all of that in mind, study your timelines and your mythologies together as far as you can go without a deeper spiritual understanding of the obvious forces behind many of those mythologies which will become evident if you truly endeavor to study it, but do not equate or confuse Catholicism or it's teachings with Christianity. And likewise do not fail to understand and investigate the role of the roman church throughout history and in politics even today.