How do you Know you Believe if you Dont Study It

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This week I have found myself feeling a bit irritated with fellow Christians, I still love them though, but my problem is these people who spout their beliefs without actually reading the bible, then they say my priest said. I am not Catholic, and have nothing against them what-so-ever, however of the 26 Catholics I have spoken to (and yes I counted) only one could tell me what he believed and why it is so by not only quoting scripture and knowing actual information, Rolandinu was the only one who could answer questions, could show me research or any of that stuff. There was another who admitted she was Catholic but did not know a lot, however the other ones said to non-believers, the priest said so and so and such and such but fail to back up anything and then they tell these people you should just believe without study, you should just believe without knowing the bible, you should just believe without having any idea of why you do it, because the priest said so. I am not being mean but it is making one of the oldest religions sound like a cult, that they really believe that they should believe in something they dont study, dont understand, and dont fully get but because some man, some priest told them it is so then they believe, then they go on to misquote the bible. So anyway yesterday, I sat down with a Catholic priest, and asked him questions in an effort to get a handle on what he was teaching. He misquoted the bible several times and added his own meanings to the bible several times, in places where the meaning was explained after the passage, his was quite different. And if you point these things out to him, he got mad and he said that you are supposed to believe what he said because God put him over people and he is in charge. When I asked him if this is what he taught his parishoners he said yes, and I told him it was blatantly wrong, and he told me I should believe him to because he had authority to teach this from the Pope, (not God) and the Pope is holy so he knows everything. So I asked normal questions about the faith after that which he could only answer a few questions, and I asked him about the rules of the church, he could answer that in length, with scripture. I asked about what the church says and he gave me a long list that if people did not do them they would be kicked out of the religion. There was just so many bad points to this meeting, I know that many Catholics will say that this was just one priest, however he was from a group of 300 priests in the area, that were taught in the same place. These gave 4 masses on Sunday in a church with enough room for 500 people that seemingly was packed, so that makes 2000 people a day who were getting wrong information, who are teaching thier children this same information, who are going to grow up and pass on this wrong information, because they believe and they dont have to prove, which means they dont have to actually read the bible they just need to believe in it. So please someone here tell me why this is please.