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I've been a believer for almost 20 years. I'm just not putting my faith in both Jesus *and* Mary.

I'm sure evil spirits hate Mary, but it wasn't her blood that was shed to defeat them. Is she cool? Yes. Does she deserve respect? Of course. She was the baddest woman of the Bible. But at the end of the day there's still only one Name.


28 posted on 10/28/2004 7:47:48 PM PDT by WV910
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I've been a believer for almost 20 years. I'm just not putting my faith in both Jesus *and* Mary.

Catholics don't "put their faith in Mary," in the sense that she is a goddess. She is still a creature, but due to her maternity of Jesus, who is true God and true Man, and through the generosity of God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - she was set "higher than the cherubim," as a hymn from the Byzantine rite of the Church states it.

34 posted on 10/28/2004 8:00:36 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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