lots of people believe in God and they don’t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics
these ultra catholics will say “the crazy things i believe are simply what God wants me to have” but is it actually so simple?
i doubt it very much.
frankly, the integralists i have spoken to make a big thing of their being “actually consistent” but in practice i find they have mostly shifted (or made extra) all the holes in their thinking.
i would say the holes are either in some place where the last person who would care to locate them died in 1990 (“you’ve never debated somebody like me” may be true now maybe but was very much not true between the years of, say, Voltaire and the discovery of the unmarked graves in the Magdalene Laundries) or into some psychological blind spot