You can say that again. They want a personal relationship with the one true God who sent His Son to this world. Jesus personally made it possible to go directly to the Father on a personal level with His personal assurance that we have been made clean by His personal blood. He personally said “whosoever may come” and didn’t require any risk taking by relying on some fallible egotistical fallen man. Jesus personally assured us that we would not come into judgment if we personally believed in Him.
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24)
Jesus personally sits at the right had of the Father and is our personal advocate before the Father.
“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” —I John 2:1
Jesus gave us the ability to personally go before the Father not having to rely on any earthly corrupted human or any other go between.
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” (Heb. 10:19,20)
We are personally promised that we can have personal peace with God through our faith in Him.
Rom. 5:1, "therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,"
You are so correct that there are many personal reasons to “come out” of the earthly rituals and mysticism of the RCC cult. No more restrictions to approaching our personal Lord and Savior personally rather than the uncertainty of a fallible man calling himself a “stand it” or “representative” but assured that we have a personal mediator between us personally and the Father.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Romans 5:1
St. John Chrysostom
Chap. v. ver. 1. Therefore being justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
What does Let us have peace mean? Some say, Let us not be at variance, through a peevish obstinacy for bringing in the Law. But to me he seems to be speaking now of our conversation. For after having said much on the subject of faith, he had set it before righteousness which is by works, to prevent any one from supposing what he said was a ground for listlessness, he says, let us have peace, that is, let us sin no more, nor go back to our former estate. For this is making war with God. And how is it possible, says one, to sin no more? How was the former thing possible? For if when liable for so many sins we were freed from all by Christ, much more shall we be able through Him to abide in the estate wherein we are. For it is not the same thing to receive peace when there had been none, and to keep it when it has been given, since to acquire surely is harder than to keep. Yet nevertheless the more difficult has been made easy, and carried out into effect. That which is the easier thing then will be what we shall easily succeed in, if we cling to Him who has wrought even the other for us. But here it is not the easiness only which he seems to me to hint at, but the reasonableness. For if He reconciled us when we were in open war with Him, it is reasonable that we should abide in a state of reconciliation, and give unto Him this reward for that He may not seem to have reconciled untoward and unfeeling creatures to the Father.
Very good. The church of I me mine. My salvation. My mediator. My personal Lord and Saviour, bruited about like a personal trainer or personal valet or personal parrot that sits in a cage and squawks upon command. If you read the fervent Protestant posts here objectively, I trust that you'll see the same trend. It's the gimme gimme mindset of much of American culture - all the way from the seasoned citizens whacking their Congressmen with their canes in order to ensure their Social Security benefits do not decrease in their increases all the way to the whinging and demanding kids who not only expect XBoxes, but will call the police if their 'guardian' of the month won't immediately give it to them.