[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, Bullshirt x 3. You'd pretty much have to be a hallucinating paranoid schizophrenic, a person with global cognitive and developmental delays, or an ignorant sectarian critic, to think that people pray "to" statues.

No more than wife 2000 miles distant from her deployed soldier husband, kisses the husband's photo and says "I miss you, darling" because she thinks the photo "is" him, or it "hears" her.

Maybe Skype is a different story.

I have heard of a certain kind of devotee putting their hands on their TV screen to pick up some Pentecostal juju from a supposed god-empowered entrepreneur, but there are idiots in every denomination.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

You'd pretty much have to be a hallucinating paranoid schizophrenic, a person with global cognitive and developmental delays, or an ignorant sectarian critic, to think that people pray "to" statues.

Sorry but you can't prove it.

That is just an assertion.

Stop criticizing Catholics. The hate has to stop!

[Elsie]

No more than wife 2000 miles distant from her deployed soldier husband, kisses the husband's photo and says "I miss you, darling" because she thinks the photo "is" him, or it "hears" her.

Hell; Rome's Mary doesn't even kiss her HUSBAND!

Whereas I can pretty much bet that Jesus' mother DID!