lol. They say it all the time. You just don't like the facts.
The historical facts:
Peter started the first church in Jerusalem.
Peter did not start the Catholic Church.
Peter was dead for 300 years before the Catholic church was established.
He was not the 1st. Pope.
Peter started Christ's original church in Jerusalem. 10 days after Christ ascended to Heaven. Right after they received the Holy Spirit. Peter preached in his church for 15 years while Paul started the churches that Jesus acknowledges in Revelation and there were others that were started by various disciples. The Antioch church for one. The Catholic church came much, much later.
There are the facts you run from. Religious and historic.

And here is some scripture for you to shy away from. It's Peter, in Jerusalem, speaking to his congregation:
Acts 2: 36-38 “So let everyone in Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord and Messiah!”
Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Scripture clarifies your bs, and pronounces exactly what Peter was doing in Jerusalem:
Acts 2:41 Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.
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Added to what? to what? to the what? Did scripture say they were
added to the church that day?
And nary a Pope in sight...