[CynicalBear]

>>However, Christians do not "venerate" Mary like catholicism does. Catholicism, though probably well intended, has crossed the line between the Biblical injunction of counting Mary as blessed to full fledged worship.<<

Exactly.

[ealgeone]

Some interesting stats:

There are 7,959 verses in the NT.

About 40 deal with Mary either directly or indirectly.

So 0.50% of the verses in the New Testament deals with Mary.

Mary is mentioned specifically by name 12x in Luke; 5x in Matthew; 1x in Mark; 1x in Acts.

Mary is an important part of the Christian narrative regarding the birth of our Savior, but she is not the central focus of the New Testament as catholicism has made her out to be.

[terycarl]

>>However, Christians do not "venerate" Mary like catholicism does. Catholicism, though probably well intended, has crossed the line between the Biblical injunction of counting Mary as blessed to full fledged worship.<<

In your opinion maybe....but basically untrue.