[Conservative til I die]

My relationship with my mother is ethically different from my relationship with Mary. I owe my mother honor, support, care, respect. In comparison, I owe that other mother zip. Zero. Nothing.

Wow, that's a generally lowlife thing to say. Tell me, do you hate all mothers that aren't your own? Or just Mary? Because you just said you owe Mary no respect, honor, support or care. Let's hope you treat other "run of the mill" woman with a little more respect.

I've always found it funny that the more you push a Proddie, the less neutral and the more outright disrespectful, and sometimes venomous and hateful they became of people respected by Catholics. Apparently only because they are respected by Catholics. What a Christian way to live.

Just pathetic and shameful.

[Tax-chick]

That's quite what I was thinking. I'm glad I don't have people in my "real life" (outside cyberspace) who think of women as trash once they've given birth. Or at least if they do, they haven't mentioned it to me.

[TomSmedley]

Wow, that's a generally lowlife thing to say. Tell me, do you hate all mothers that aren't your own? Or just Mary? Because you just said you owe Mary no respect, honor, support or care. Let's hope you treat other "run of the mill" woman with a little more respect.

Mary is not, and never has been, my mother. She is beyond needing my financial support (obviously)!

In the sight of God, the respect I offer a little 76 year old lady who shuffles around in an Alzheimers fog, singing the Ukrainian hymns of her childhood, is a far more pressing moral obligation than the respect I can offer anyone else's mother.

One moral act is for real. The other is a fantasy that verges into the demonic frequently enough to discredit the entire devotional system built around the goddess.

I love and respect my Catholic brothers and sisters. Some of the most insightful books I've read over the last five years came from the pens of Catholic writers, like G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, J. R. R. Tolkein, E. Michael Jones, Leon Podles, and Luke Timothy Johnson. This respect does not, however, carry over to alternate/supplemental deities they may worship.