[Theoden]

An excerpt from G.K. Chesterton's Lepanto...

The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes,

And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,

And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,

And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,

And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,—

But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.

Still rings true today.

[nmh]

"And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,—"

I don't "HATE" her. I simply do NOT pray to her or elevate her in a position higher than any other SINNER. Mary is just another sinner in need of Christ for eternal life too.

[Upbeat]

"And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee". Do you know the basis or background for Chesterton to write these words? In all my 70 years I have never heard a fellow Christian of any denomination expressing hatred toward the mother of Christ.