Don't be ridiculous. Quit trying to peddle agnosticism (the idea that we can't know truth)
I'm being objective. If in our day and age(Church and Pope absent, formally or factually, indifferently) Truth was so easy to obtain, your own very forum wouldn't be utterly divided on itself.
You got SVs, SPs, BODers, Feeneyists, BODomaniacs of various degrees, all sorts of things.
The whole point of the Traditional movement is to leave a dangerous situation (Conciliar Church) where we aren't being fed, and to find pastors who will feed the sheep (rather than try to slaughter them). So we go out into the wilderness, looking for places we can nourish and keep our Catholic Faith.
Yes, of course. It is a necessary first step and an anchor of relative certitude in dire times.
But what if by adhering to one specific "traditionalist" group you were to embrace error? Be it Dimondism, Feeneyism, Dogmatic SVism, BODoramism, passiveinfallibilitism, OCACism, I have no idea how many possible ones.
It can happen. Even the hardcore SV/Cekadian position of "everything before V2=100% orthodox" may very well be erroneous.
Just about every other Trad group is superior, i.e. a safer lifeboat for one's Faith than the bitter, schismatic Dimond brothers.
Surely just about every other group is more tolerant. But a safer lifeboat?
Objectively speaking, in the context of the Great Apostasy, I or anyone else can't be absolutely sure.
We Catholics can and should judge trees by their fruits. When I see Catholics staying home from the Mass and Sacraments because they are being picky about some small thing that doesn't matter, suffering very real damage which really DOES matter, I know that the advice they received is erroneous and evil.
Right. Of course you can only say this based on your own personal understanding and personal theology. It is almost entirely subjective too.