The Bible is full of bigotry and ridiculous claims like Noah building an ark that could fit all animals (where did he get the food to feed them all).....Noah was 950 years old when he died....Wow! He had no tooth brush, he probably lost all his teeth and 8/9ths of his life was eating apple sauce of things that don't require teeth.
The Bible says stupid things like "Call no man Father" while at the same time saying "Honor your Father and Mother"...and Paul says "I became your Father"...and others referred to Abraham as their Father.
The Bible says "Ask anything of the Father and it will be done, faith of a mustard seed can move mountains, there will be many eunuchs for the Kingdom of God, better to remain a virgin than get married, those who believe in Christ will do the works that he did and greater works, they will pick up venomous serpents and drink poison and it will not harm them, " etc.
That is just a few of very many verses in Scripture that mislead people, and much evidence says that it isn't true. There is much bigotry, sexism, and atrocities that are justified in the Bible. There is a humongous amount of the Bible that isn't meant to be taken literally, that is easily taken out of context, that is parables, poetry, symbolism, and metaphors that people twist to their destruction. Fortunately, as a Catholic, we are taught that a person can follow their conscience and get to Heaven. When the Scriptures go against my conscience I don't follow them, pure and simple.
Many Catholics read the Bible and we hear it read every day if we attend daily mass like I do. The Bible becomes something we take with a grain of salt because it is hard to understand and stirs up division, bigotry, and hatred.
Btw,
you are wrong. We don't believe only a priest can interpret the Bible correctly.