If the Catholics would like to focus a bit more on Mary than most, then why not? And if some other group would like to focus a bit more on John the Baptist than most, again why not?
It’s not like either group is putting someone ahead of Christ.
I sure wish Christians would quit picking at each other, and instead think of ways to unite us.
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Facts are facts and Mary is the mother of The Christ, period. The problem is that some people ascribe deity to Mary. Despite being the vessel God used to bring
Christ into the world, while she was “flavored” among women she was just a woman like any other woman who has to look to Christ to be saved just the same as any other person on earth.
In my opinion it is Joseph who is short changed in all this. He is the one who took a pregnant woman to wife, pregnant with a child that was not his. In todays Islam Mary would be stoned. It was Joseph who safely took the family to Egypt and hid The Child Jesus until it was safe to go back. It was Joseph who taught the Child Jesus about His heritage, the scriptures, how to earn a living and much much more. He gets little or no honor.
Must be an early version of Family Court (having lived through it myself)!
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Mary had the most justification of anyone in history for being a single mom. God could have protected her and accomplish what he needed done. However, it was important to God that his son have an earthly father. If an earthy father for his son was so important to God, shouldn’t that be telling us something?
You are right about Joseph as far as not getting credit. Indeed, he actually himself must have been honored to have been chosen by God to raise a son not his, per se.
However, I always suspect much of this anti-Mary stuff is mostly sexism. After all, for a normal woman being pregnant and birthing is highly risky and very difficult, much less any time before the last half century. And it is not as if she does nothing besides birth him. Trust me.
Facts are facts
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That is a tautophrase used for evasion and followed in the same sentence by a supposition that is purely a matter of faith. NEAT, but no cigar!
Not to mention supposedly never sexually touching Mary despite sexual relations being how this union is described in Scripture (Gn. 2:24,25) And intending not to have children is one of the reasons the RCC normally holds as grounds for her "annulment."