“It’s sure a good thing that Catholics tell us that they don’t worship Mary cause otherwise nobody would ever know that that sort of thing wasn’t worship.”
Is it possible that Western Protestants haven’t been Christians long enough to understand a prayer like the Akathist? Maybe Western culture, mostly dog vomit these days and firmly rooted in Atheism, makes it impossible for you folks?
BTW, your post is the first I’ve seen from a non-Orthodox Freeper which recognizes Orthodox as Catholics. In fairness to the Latins, most every Marian belief they have came from us.
Nobody with an understanding of what real worship is would confuse that beautiful prayer with worship. People who accept a niggardly imitation "worship" might have a problem.