[Campion]

Maalula is one of the world's oldest Christian settlements, and its inhabitants still speak Aramaic, a language spoken by Jews in Israel at the time Jesus was said to have lived.

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Maalula is one of the world's oldest Christian settlements, and its inhabitants still speak Aramaic, a language spoken by Jews in Israel at the time Jesus was said to have lived.

Original Christianity, the Christianity planted by the Apostles themselves as related in the Book of Acts, venerates and loves Mary. Only the 16th century syncretism of Christianity, rationalism, and Platonism you have mistaken for the real thing disrespects her.

[Oratam]

Throw Islam in there, too. I think they have much in common.

[ealgeone]

Original Christianity, the Christianity planted by the Apostles themselves as related in the Book of Acts, venerates and loves Mary.

Show us in the Word where we find the apostles "venerating" Mary as you claim.