The Catholic Church wants you to "believe" that, in the entire tree of human knowledge, only Catholicism can teach you to know right from wrong as "the one true God" defines right from wrong. Catholicism, in other words, claims to be the cure for our differences in perception - which is the very thing that not only enables us to be unique from each other, but the only reason why anyone can ever create anything unique at all.
According to the Bible, a serpent in the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" lured Adam & Eve (stand-ins for the whole human race) into eating its forbidden fruit by getting them to "believe" that by doing so, they "would become like God, knowing right from wrong."
Of course, this implies that they did not know right from wrong before they ate that fruit, so how could they be judged guilty of doing something wrong before they had any ability to know it was wrong?
This is like sentencing an infant to life in prison for eating a cookie it was forbidden from eating, even though the infant has no idea what a "word" even is, let alone what the word "forbidden" means. Even our own imperfect legal systems recognize that children may have little to no knowledge of right and wrong.
Of all the ways God could have saved humanity from the eternal hell it earned by disobeying a command it had no ability to know it was disobeying in the first place, since Adam & Eve could not know right from wrong before they had eaten the fruit from the tree of knowledge of right and wrong that gave them such knowledge, God choose to require people to "believe" in a Church selling the very same claim the serpent sold Adam & Eve.
And if you ask a Catholic how this makes any damn sense whatsoever, they just stare at you as if they are having an absence seizure.
Absence seizures involve brief, sudden lapses of consciousness. They're more common in children than in adults. In the Christian, they appear to occur whenever they are confronted with two perspectives of their "God" that are directly at odds with each other, otherwise known as cognitive dissonance. A person having an absence seizure may stare blankly into space for a few seconds. Then the person typically returns quickly to being alert.
Ask a Christian why their God is "good" when he commits or commands his followers to commit genocide and the devil is bad for encouraging us to even enjoy doing so, and they may claim that it's because their God is above such moral limitations. But when you point out that, even if we accept such an idea (as morally relative as it is do so so), how then can anyone ever know for certain which "followers" are sanctioned to engage in such genocide in God's stead, and are therefore as above any moral limitations as God is, and which have merely been deceived into believing they are doing so for a mistaken interpretation of "God" - of which there has always been far more of the latter than the former - and they appear to have an absence seizure, because they just don't know.
Worse, however, is that they don't seem to care what not being able to tell the difference means: that their idea of God is flawed and needs to be both discarded and updated.
Of the two kinds of brains in hour head, the more emotional brain feels a need to make the contradiction fit their existing ideas about "God" - a word that, because it is applied to an immaterial intelligence, is even more abstract than abstraction itself - while the more rational part of our brain (which only fully forms in our mid 20s) realizes the need to change the existing ideas about the word "God."
Naturally, those who do the former accuse those who do the latter of being heretics and pawns of their "devil."
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