Appears they get their wisdom from secular or pagan philosophers and they spend their time studying the philosophies and commentaries of St. Augustines Confessions, Newman, Chesterton, Belloc - etc., and ignore the words of God in the Scriptures...
So we get to talk to highly educated people who know a lot about their religion but practically nothing about God, or his word...
That’s it in a nutshell. They are WORLDLY ‘religious’ and so invested in it that they are blinded and they, deliberately, dug that pompous deceptive hole for themselves.