“Self righteous efforts”? “lack of benignity”? so when we see error and contradiction to scripture we should just be nicey, nicey and just not say anything? Look up righteous indignation. When Jesus saw error He didn’t just remain silent. Mark 3:5 “After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts”. He also took the time to make a whip of cords to chase the money changers from the Temple. Simply disagreeing with Catholics and pointing to scripture to support surely can’t be considered “Self righteious”.
You think the Pharisees weren’t pointing to Scripture when they accused the disciples of “harvesting on the Sabbath?”
Just about every slander leveled at Christ was based in a Scripture reference.
Referring to Scripture means nothing. Rightly dividing it, does.
I’ve seen Protestants here spewing Scripture like they have Tourette’s to sanctify their vanity, but most of the time the citation is so polluted with subtexts and pretexts on how the passage is “supposed” to be understood that they can no longer tell the difference between the word of God and their own preferences.