Something similar happened to me, wierd: This elderly woman looked at me when I was in a drugstore, and within 10 seconds, she was teaching me that true religion flows from our interior !!!
Hey! she must have read this:
...In his 1907 encyclical
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope St. Pius X condemned Modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies," identifying its core mechanism as "vital immanence". Modernists argued that faith is not a rational reception of objective, external revelation, but a subjective sentiment originating entirely within the human consciousness and personal experience....

They feel inferior, like Cain in front of Abdel. This is only natural.