I can only agree with Admiral Lok’ri: Heresy comes along with many truths, but in heresy truth gets intermingled in dangerous ways with error.
“I was betrayed…”, we hear the clamor of the one that feels wronged, and “as were […] many other[s]”. And thus, the system is abusive. The Priest needs to be ‘cut out’. The others have to be the ones that use their power to keep oneself seperated for God, right? Who else is there to blame?
I can only shake my head at those ideas. If one needs to go to God oneself, one doesn’t need to cut anyone out. One needs to go. Go! What a waste of time to try to fix something, which never can be the problem!
The way to God is always free, for who’d be able to stand between Him and His creation? It is ourselves holding us back, turning away. That is the grave sin, humanities greatest failing. The price of being able to freely turn towards Lord God. To choose humility, a true humility out of which grows a natural meekness.
It’s an egotistical, a toxic individualism to point out flaws in others and blame them for ones own misery. We do so mostly because we have those very same weaknesses in ourselves - but lack the strength or courage to tackle them right there, within ourselves. And thus, we loathe them even more when we encounter them in others. Because the others turn into mirrors, showing to us our greatest failings.
Only true humility and meekness allow us to turn away and face ourselves and the flaws we need to rectify. To find serenity, to make peace with the within and without and find our true place in the grand scheme of things. To find God in ourselves and ourselves in God.
I will include you in my prayers, Cpt. Kernher.