The crowd is large, the benches hard, the lights are bright, the language Latin, maybe not. When you finish watching the priest bless the body of Christ disguised as white bread on a silver platter, then hold up Christ's blood which is really grape juice, step up with fellow worshippers and receive the 'body of Christ' in a thin wafer or bit of bread the priest places on your tongue. Christian theology with its saints, popes, wood or gold encrusted crucifixes, child-abusing nuns and priests, TV evangelists, ghetto exploiting ministers, is a wonderland of intercession. Most traditional theology with its overriding message teaches that man is so guilty before God, that our individual approach could never quite hit the mark, as we are inherently sinful. Only those pure and humble intercessors may plead and grab God's ear, for the rest of us.
Monotheism stands alone in teaching something completely different.
This is submission to God alone, not anyone or anything else. You Shall Not Worship Except God, and a warning that The Book specified, is both divine as given, without additions or subtractions. Those who come to us selling salvation and comfort, come in many disguises. Some are more obvious than others. IN Western culture, the need for spiritual intercession is redirected toward secular gurus who write, speak and personally advise people on getting rich, attaining power, finding the spouse you know you really deserve and moving up faster than our neighbors.