Catholics usually become Protestants because they feel jaded by Church officials, and they usually have about an 8th grade understanding of their faith.
It was that way in my own family where my father and his brothers left the Church and because Protestant. They didn’t do it for any intellectual reason.
It all was a bit like bitter children rebelling against a bad parent.
For every bad priest or bishop, there are countless others who lead holy lives.
Protestants usually become Catholic or Orthodox for intellectual reasons after they start seeing the circular reasoning of the Protestant rejection of Catholicism.
Going to college and meeting “born again” Evangelicals was an eye-opening experience for someone who had been taught Sola Scriptura Lutheranism.
I saw a group of people who claimed to believe in the same Solas that I did, but their claims about the Bible were radically opposed to everything I had been taught about the Bible as a Lutheran.
Mind you I was an ELCA Lutheran, but seeing how radically different these “born agains” interpretation of scripture was shook my faith in the whole Sola Scriptura dogma and made me want to find out what the earliest Christians REALLY believed.
I ended up realizing that these sectarian biases were all manmade and had nothing to do with authentic timeless Christianity.
That’s the problem with believing in salvation by belonging to some group. Salvation is a personal belief in and confession that Jesus has paid the final and complete price for our salvation and freely forgives all our sins.
So you didn't bother checking the scriptures to see if they were telling you the truth??? You're just not the Berean type, eh???
You rejected their opinion for someone else's opinion...And you never checked to see what God said about it...