To be a Roman Catholic is to believe you are as infallible in your convictions about what is moral as you are committed to your belief that the Roman Catholic Church is "infallible" in any of its proclamations about faith and morals, and as inerrant as you (must) believe the Bible to be.
A Catholic must believe this, even though the Catholic Church has changed its position on everything from limbo for unbaptized infants to the morality of slavery, to suicide, and plenty of other "moral" claims about faith.
To cling to such a "belief" is to believe your own views concerning any moral questions are as infallible as those espoused by the Church, for if the Church is infallible in its claims, and your claims are based on that Church then the Catholic feels their "beliefs" are equally infallible.
Doing this convinces the Catholic that they are only as special, and therefore only as worthy of being "saved" from eternal torment, as they are capable of clinging to their belief that Roman Catholicism is infallible in its moral proclamations. To let go of the latter is to let go of the former, for one is merely the mirrored reflection of the other.
To do this, the Catholic must also believe that their refusal to consider other perspectives to be as valid as their own is because they have "put on the armor of God," which has made them immune from ever considering that anyone who disagrees with them could ever possibly be right. And the mere act of such a disagreement is not to disagree with the Catholic but, since the Catholic is simply an atom (Adam) of the Catholic Church, but to disagree with God Himself.
And what did God do when anyone disagreed with Him? He killed them all!
And that's why the Catholic feels they have a divine license to do the exact same thing, with just as much righteousness and moral certainty as God killing everyone with a flood or firebombing Sodom and Gomorrah.
Welcome to the family I grew up in.
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