I hope you are not, like others on this thread, afraid to actually defend Catholic teaching on your own.
Why do you FAIL to follow Paul's clear example??
Acts 17:2
And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Because, unlike Paul, I live in a world where books are plentiful and cheap. In Paul’s time, a copy of the Scriptures cost the lifetime wages of a worker.
You want me to wear my fingers to the bone typing out passages of Scripture when everything is at your fingertips.