"The current Conventional Wisdom is that unless another person is Absolutely Right from my perspective"

Ah. but that IS the point - if you claim to follow that religion strand, He IS the Acme of Absolute Right and Correctness - He Pontificated so Himself - in a previous incarnation ....

And now you may glimpse why when much younger I found it difficult to claim to be a follower of an Absolute Mythical Magical Invisible Sky Fairy who one was supposed to obey absolutely, yet whose other followers insisted on being 'pragmatic' whenever it suited them, depending on which way the wind was blowing, and so I decided that it was actually easier for me to just cut out the middle man, and just be pragmatic for myself! :=)

The problem is that many people DO defer to the opinions of such a leader, when it suits them to blame someone else for their actions, better they should think for themselves...