You know, Caths can be unhinged but working at a church (property work, not a priest lol) I can tell you that newer Caths have some sort of radicalized mind-fuck going on that is meant to reinforce their belief even harder than traditional Catholics.
I still vividly remember casually prodding the idea that “You don’t necessarily need the bible to be moral” at a table of 20 year old Catholics and the way they looked at me made me was…intense, to say the least.
The bad way? Alcohol.
The good way? Meditation.
My way? Counting gulags in my sleep.