[brightball]

2 Timothy 4:3-4 pretty much covers this head on.

Teaching that you want to hear essentially.

[reducesuffering]

It's a spectrum. On one end you can just find someone to teach and validate all your existing beliefs. On the other, you can blindly follow religious leaders verbatim; all the way into a cult, Southern Baptist approval of slavery, or Catholic indulgences.

[andrewmcwatters]

This is just handwaving.