This errant interpretation has been rightly rejected by all notable theologians, scholars, saints and martyrs, and was so for the first 1400 years before we saw the plague of Protestantism flood this earth with a mudslide of heresies from Joel Osteen and Billy Graham to David Koresh and Jim Jones, and right down to your current crop of televangelists.
Try explaining this to the vast constellation of people who have converted to Catholicism. These folks are not your run-of-the-mill fools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Catholicism
Joel Osteen what an unctuous fraud