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Your post indicated that corruption overall is a problem where there's separation of powers. I answered that notion directly. There is not that problem. And I further addressed that if there is the problem that you claim is occurring, then it must be that this problem is much less severe of a...

I would like to see some sort of source that supports your claim that corruption is particularly a problem in the western democracies like the US, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Australia, NZ, Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Scandanavia, Netherlands; and that it's not more particularly a...

That's absolute democracy, yes. 'Democracy' is shorthand for 'liberal democracy', where the liberal institutions prevail; separation of powers (independent judiciary), constitutionalism, rule of law, civilian control of the military.

The consecrated host is kept safe in a safe-like cabinet called the tabernacle. We kneel toward the tabernacle when we enter and before we leave the church (where Mass is).

Every 'western developed wealthy democracy' (code words for America and our 'clones') is free. What you and other extreme rightists mean by freedom and liberty is more akin to anarchism. Us liberals believe in freedom and liberty we just believe in at minimum a 'night watchman' regime, while...

Only that Peter was one of the Twelve who consecrated bishops during his lifetime, just like Paul did, through the imposition of his hands, which is part of the celebration of the sacrament of Holy Orders. And you're right that Orthodox bishops are also valid bishops along with Catholic...

Apples and oranges. The popes do not ascend to Peter's seat during the celebration of the sacrament of Holy Orders. There's Holy Orders on the one side (where bishops are validly consecrated by existing bishops), and then there's who the pope is on the other. And apart from the pope being a...

Literally nobody claimed otherwise.

I'll just repeat again the third sentence in the OP. " Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles." Your Dispensationalist narrative is clouding your judgment. Where do you think the idea of bishops comes from? The Bible. Especially, Paul the Apostle's...

Because the Bible doesn't record the rest of their lives. We went through this. You remember how except for James they all were executed somewhere outside of Judea. Which corroborates and sustains that they 'ended up' doing what they were instructed to do. They all went far and wide. Supra...

So the Lord Himself has taught you things directly without "filtering it through anyone"? Do tell! Who is 'following' men? Not me.

Plain.

But He did command His Apostles to teach what He had taught them, and then they did establish the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Then I repeat. " The Scripture teaches that the Church is presided over by bishops."

He told Bishop Timothy that " the house of God, which is the church of the living God [is] the pillar and ground of the truth." 1st Timothy 3:15

And I repeat the third sentence in the OP. " Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles." There's no 'conflation' here, just confusion ---- yours.

Bald assertion. And I say this not just because it's a logical fallacy, but because I know that you cannot sustain, substantiate or support your assertion with any evidence that I can't turn around and use against you and whatever church you're a part of. And that would mean that your argument...

The Scripture including Paul teaches that the Church is presided over by bishops. So to be faithfully Sola Scriptura is to be Catholic (or Orthodox).

1st Corinthians 10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21...

Bald assertion.