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Oh my, seems I've struck a major nerve. I'll lay this one out for you in terms you can probably understand. See, the thing that you value more than your freedom is the tool that will be used to enslave you by the Great Enemy.
This is sadly a thing that the PTB/Totalitarian Assholes have figured out. Turns out people are more than willing to die for a given cause themselves, but they ain't so keen on sacrificing their entire extended/blood-related family whilst they live on to see the success of their ventures if ya catch my meaning. I mean hell this shit is even dealt with by Kirkegaard. Abraham's "Leap of Faith" involved sacrificing his only son that he ought not to have been given by the standards of his time in the first place. Plus, well, human sacrifice was just a thing you did in those times. Baal wasn't quite satisfied by a mere young and likely tasty if you grilled it right goat.
To bring this home. How could/would the devil wish to introduce error and heresy into the flock of the faithful? Why, by their collectively trusted and beloved "priest" of course. How could the great enemy best get him/her to tell them all a suite of lies and errors? If he has, say, a wife and family and he gets a memo that says hey, that's and wonderfully happy family ya got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. Right? Well, something will happen to it if you don't, let's start light, phrase your next homily to subtly suggest that Arius might have had a point. Surely, there's a bit of wiggle room in regards to the full Divinity and Humanity of Christ eh?
Not sure if you understand how Catholic Churches work but when we collectively call the priest "father" we're rather earnest and serious about assigning him that title. To scale it up to its maximum the "pope" is literally the father of billions despite the fact he hasn't spawned a single baby if we assume he's stuck to his vows of chastity from the moment he received his Holy Orders.
Not to say that popes haven't been monumentally fucked up nor that a pope can compel the faithful to error. This is where the "trad" Catholics fuck up bigtime. Not even Francis has violated the institution by actually invoking infallibility in regards to an error. Did he fuck up? Yeah he did. Did he actually, in point of fact, compel the faithful to embrace sin/error? No. (fun case: how he handled the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade. Pure Catholic if nothing else).
Also I'd challenge you to look up what Altar Boys/Girls are and how they function. They ain't exactly on the priest's "beck and call" as it were...