I guess that that is the trouble.
Morphing croquet into cricket and then into baseball and trying to tell everyone that the rules of baseball are really the way croquet was intended, and that anyone who plays croquet as it originally was is wrong.
If people want to split from the Church and create their own belief systems, then that is their free will. Just don’t claim that you are really the Church as originally intended. You want to be your own Pope and indulge in your own personal interpretation of Scripture, then that’s your free will.
Just be careful of what Jesus said about the little children. Exposing them to false doctrines could be the equivalent of keeping them away from Him.
I suppose that's a thought that can be aimed in either direction, with equal sincerity if not equal accuracy. But there is something to it in my experience. I cannot believe of how much I deprived myself by not converting earlier. It's like I was sticking my toe in a nice bath and thinking that was all that taking a nice bath had to offer. I DID have a reasonably clean toe and it felt pretty good, but, wow! the difference once I got all the way in!