> some Seventh-Day Adventists apparently see the Catholic church as the "Whore of Babylon" That’s probably not too far off. My impression is that the Hebrew Bi

> some Seventh-Day Adventists apparently see the Catholic church as the "Whore of Babylon" That’s probably not too far off. My impression is that the Hebrew Bible was written by nomadic shepherds who despised cosmopolitan city-dwellers who they thought had loose morals. And similarly for the authors of the New Testament, who despised the Roman Empire of the day (“Babylon” here is thought to be a stand-in for Rome). It is quite ironic that this became the holy teaching of the state religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later. (Disclaimer: I am not a religious person and am by no means an expert on the Bible.)