How do you know that your assessment is correct? By what authority do you make such a pontification?

Pharisees declared that Christians added paganism to Judaism. They are your fathers.

The Pharisees, while rejecting God Incarnate, claimed Abraham as their father. God Incarnate informed them otherwise, telling them that Stan is their father (meaning the father of their faith, because it is in rebellion against God's order).

In asserting your own authority, you reject the authority instituted by God Incarnate and so are in league with the Pharisees.

Who has the authority to declare the canon of inspired scripture?

There will be some reading that who will think that surely you jest, but I am aware of countless like you. That argument was used in the ancient world by Gnostics to defend their adherence to various false notions, which they then wrote spurious 'gospels' to use as defense.

It is good to see that you at least take the logic that the average Protestant assumes has no telos to its telos. Your only authority is yourself.

Your first two questions again show that your only authority is yourself. You have not rejected the concepts of papacy, councils, and Magisterium: rather, you see those as you.

Your second statement is patently absurd and would be laughably false (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Cranmer and Knox, etc. all would have declared it utterly heretical) even to all adherents of sola scriptura, if that Luther-concocted doctrine did not create chaos ever proliferating into solipsistic nothingness.

Christ gave all authority to the Apostles, with the keys of the kingdom given to Peter, and He instructed them to train men to take their place. You either accept that authority or you are in rebellion against it, thereby making yourself your own apostle.

If you declare that the canon of scripture is false, a work of mere men, it is at best redundant to care that the writings of men taught by Apostles were not canonized.

You make no sense, logically coherent sense, which leads to me even more to see you as little more than another who is simply in rebelion against the seat of Peter. if Catholcism has adopted idol worship, then so has Orthodoxy, which means you must denounce it as unrelentingly as you do Catholicism.

Knowing the history and cultures of the ancient world does not solve the problem of scripture assumed to interpret itself. The problem is what authority declares an end to disputes by judging what is correct and what is incorrect, which would be the same authority that declares what is inspired scripture.

Protestantism is a system that fits naturally with universalism (as Servetus declared), for it instructs (through sola scriptura and sola fide) the believer to see himself as that authority, which leads either to endless wars to prove right through might or tolerance of all, even the most egregious errors, as the way to prevent the violence.

That is the fruit of Luther and his 'reformation:' a rejection of Christendom for a world of universalism in which all non-Christian religions are favored to a significant degree and endless paganisms are reborn or reinvigorated, while public immorality hits highs not known even in the worst of the pagan Roman Empire.

The fruit of Catholicsm is the only Christendom the world has ever seen, the only set of nations in which Christian identity and morals were publicly confessed.

Amen... you will know Christians by their fruits.