Saints and Hierarchy - Sundays with John Ball

The Roman Church recognises the true God in the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
However, the grave sin of the Roman Church is that it adds on to the true faith. For the true Christian, Christ is sufficient. Because He is our King and High Priest we do not need kings and priests, bureaucrats and bishops.
For the Catholic, Christ is not sufficient. Along with their dogma, their tradition, their idolatry and their Mariology, Catholics also add minor gods to intercede for us with God.
So, when they wish to approach God, Catholics come across a whole load of gatekeepers barring the way. These are the priests and the saints.
We have come across the priests before. We know that for Christians there is a priesthood of ALL believers. Like wise ALL believers are saints.
The word saint comes from the word ‘sanctify’, to be made holy.
Once we know that Jesus is our Saviour, the Holy Ghost improves us. We live with Christ as a part of us. We measure ourselves against Him daily. We seek what is pleasing to God, not ourselves. We seek righteousness, not what we can get away with.
Of course, in this life, we never reach perfection, but by turning our faces away from ourselves and towards God, we are a little less selfish, cruel, mad and bad than we would have been otherwise.
However, the Roman Church scorns the holiness of the everyday saint and invents super saints, Saint Anthony, Saint Francis, Saint Rita and so on.
Even in heaven, the Roman idolaters wish to maintain their hierarchy, for that is what they really worship - Hierarchy.
On earth they have their pope and their cardinals, their bishops and their priests and last of all the peasants, the poor bloody infantry.
On earth they have their saints and their Madonna, there to intercede for us with God.
They are mere inventions, created to justify the tyranny of priests on earth.