Sez you. I found that having three G-ds is kinda polytheistic (yeah yeah yeah, I've heard the old three-in-one thing before, and I didn't buy it then, either).
Furthermore, you literally pray to people (saints, Mary, etc). It's like you are worshiping them, too, especially Mary.
Your ignorance, my faith. Do you think the first apostles--who were Jews--found it any easier to comprehend?
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"Furthermore, you literally pray to people (saints, Mary, etc). It's like you are worshiping them, too, especially Mary"
Not at all. We believe in survival after death. And so we speak to those who have passed from this life to the next and ask for their intercession on our behalf. It's not unreasonable. Many people who have lost loved ones speak to the loved one, hopeful of being heard. It's a universal instinct--built into human nature. We affirm it as a dogma of faith--the communion of saints. It is not worship at all. Neither is having statues of saints a mode of worship. We have statues and paintings the way people have photos of loved ones around the house--or portraits of ancestors. Same difference. It is not at all the same as idol-worship--worshiping the statue or painting for its own sake. The images are reminders only--aids to keep them close to our hearts.