I think it was C.S. Lewis (a Belfast Protestant - but wise) who noted that even well-meaning Protestants never get anywhere by attacking the Blessed Virgin Mary, because Catholics respond just as any decent fellow would if you attacked his mother.
But here's our basic problem: sola scriptura. The Tradition of the Church predates the Bible; in fact, the Church compiled the Bible. When you rely solely upon the book that the Church compiled, without consulting the other teachings of the Church Fathers, you are deprived of the context. The existence of Church traditions in addition to the Bible was specifically noted by St. John and St. Paul in the Bible itself. Hence your lack of understanding of what the Church teaches.
Yes, I do understand where you’re coming from. They talk about the Magisterium on EWTN all the time. My disagreement is with things that I see to be un-Biblical, not just unmentioned.
Like Mary being born sinless. The Bible is replete with the statement that we are all born in sin, every one of us. Or praying to people who have died. People in the Bible don’t talk to dead people, except for necromancers who are condemned for that.
And the Catholic belief that you can only be forgiven by confessing directly to a priest who then forgives you, not by praying to God directly.
I get where you get that from, sort of, when the Bible said “The keys are given to you, whomever you forgive will be forgiven whomever you don’t forgive won’t be forgiven,” yet the Bible is filled with Christians being told to forgive each other, seven times seventy, at least.
I wasn’t insulting anyone, we were simply asked what we were protesting and I answered him, there was no insults in my reply.