No Mary, I don’t believe any of that for a minute. Even as an Evangelical I never subjected Catholics to the type of supercilious,doctrinaire, accusations your side practices as a matter of course.”
Me either, I had my questions and I had been taught the same silliness that these people hold onto like it was Scripture itself.
I asked my questions respectfully of people I respected and if they didn’t have the answer, they asked someone who knew or we found out together.
I remember one time when my friends were Catechizing me a woman came to our prayer meeting, she wouldn’t come back because we were too intellectual.
"Pride goeth.............."