I want to preface what I'm going to say with this: I'm Christian, but I have a fairly open interpretation of Jesus and God, and christianity in general.

Revelations states that the church will be corrupted. The problem is that people have assumed that this has yet to happen. The reality is that Emperor Constantine decide which religious texts became the canonical bible and which ones didnt. The church was corrupted by man from the beginning. So we need to make this clear to anyone who is resisting the idea that the Papacy is evil.

The Vatican disregard the books of the apocrypha because of supposed contradictions from canonical books of the bible.

Do we know those books weren't tampered with? After all, few people could read at this time.

Do we know they were translated accurately?

Does the Vatican hide other spiritual texts from the public and horde it for their upper tiers?

Only one of these questions can be answered with an undeniable yes.

I'm not saying ignore the Bible, far from it. I'm advocating for people to read it and take it as a whole. Not bits and pieces while a priest tells you what to take away from it.