I see you’ve been reduced to copying other posts verbatim and setting them in jazzy multi-colored fonts, no doubt to wow and amaze everyone. Or is it your intention by using giant-size letters to shout down the measured and reasoned Catholic responses on this thread?
Pitiful.
Truly, it is, at the very best, an error to SUBSTITUTE anything or anyone for Christ. However, I think your side does not understand what it means to be "in Christ," and confuses those who, "in Christ" share His mediating work, with substitution.
And, of course, in doing so, you have to pick your way carefully around the injunctions to pray for others and the observation that the prayers of the righteous "avail much."
The exigent, legalistic, works-centered Catholic Church tends to think that those of careless mind may still be forgiven by a God who graciously takes their misdirected devotions as better than the devotees intended.
At the same time, the loving, generous, faith-based non-Catholics call down fire and destruction on the simple who do not think or pray with the anxious precision and fearful precaution required to escape the wrath of the God proposed by those who insist that works are worthless.
"Only God saves, by His loving grace, you'd better make sure you don't goof in your prayers so he doesn't mash you like a bug."
Interesting message.
When they deny something as clear and explicit as "one God and one mediator between God and men," you have to wonder about their entire reasoning ability.
If they get that wrong, how can anything that follows this misdirection not be tinged with error?