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Hermeneutics is just the science/art of figuring out what a text means

I have nothing against that and I have done that work when necessary. I am making fun of Protestant of losing the textual argument and then saying something like "study some hermeneutics". If S.t Paul, for example, makes a remark that reveals that he, Paul, thinks that the bread and wine of the Last Supper is the body of Christ sacrificed for us, then that is not the case for pulling rabbits out of a hat. It is plain text. He says so in the middle of an epistle about Christian brotherhood. That is another fact. So instead of ignoring the verses you-all THINK are out of context as if St. Paul did not write them at all, and calling that sleight-of-hand "hermeneutics", perhaps you-all should learn the other lesson: that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ because of the Holy Mystery of the Eucharist. No hermeneutics are necessary to figure that.

mines in the ground

That is the thing. The Holy Scripture is written by Catholics for Catholics. To the Protestants it is a minefield indeed.

The Holy Scripture is written by Catholics for Catholics. To the Protestants it is a minefield indeed.

It appears that your rabies shots are not uptodate.

Nope; no mention at ALL about Catholics here...

NIV Luke 1:1-4
1. Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,
2. just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
3. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
4. so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

NIV Romans 4:23-24
23. The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone,
24. but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness--for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

NIV Romans 15:3-4
3. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
4. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

NIV 1 Corinthians 4:6
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.

NIV 2 Corinthians 1:13-14
13. For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14. as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.

NIV 2 Peter 3:16
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

NIV 1 John 2:12-14
12. I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
13. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
14. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.