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I think that it is primarily because the natural man does not understand or receive the truths of Scripture that so many here skip right on past the simplicity that is in Christ. To tell someone who is completely convinced that their religion is the only true one that it may not be so, is to attack their very reason for existence. That is also why it becomes futile to get them to agree that they have been taught something wrong even about the smallest of details.

For example, believing that Mary was sinless, as the dogma of the “Immaculate Conception” states. Whether I accept this or not has no bearing on my salvation according to Scripture. Yet it is one of only a few extra-Biblical “ex-cathedra” doctrines proclaimed by the Magesterium that they say one MUST believe or be excommunicated, and therefor, condemned to hell.

I have come to believe that arguing issues other than what is required to be saved is pointless and used by Satan as a distraction from the main issue which is, “What must I do to be saved?”. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ" is the answer, and until that sinks in and becomes real in a person's life and they are indwelt by God's Holy Spirit, no other things of God can ever make sense.