“Vladimir! Do you really think i was arguing Manning was denying his church had antiquity,...”
Why did you cut the first sentence from the passage? State the exact reason you did so.
For the same reason i left out the one before that, and the one before that, etc. etc. Because my point was, nothing more or less, that history is what Rome says it is, which the quote by Manning affirmed. The rest that you included does not change that one iota, and was not pertinent to it. That someone may understand Manning as actually denying his church had any antiquity (which though never even crossed my mind from the first time i ever read it) seems absurd to me, as does going bananas over it, and charging me with dishonesty or stupidity makes Rome looks even worse.