[Kolokotronis]

"The veneration in some sects sure looks like it has changed into cult worship though."

I agree, though I must say I have never seen this in Orthodoxy. I am very concerned when I hear our Latin brethren, at least some of them, refer to Panagia (by the way, that means The All Holy One) as the "Co Redemptrix". While I think I know what is meant by that when used by recognized Latin theologians and its likely OK, its use by otherwise theologically uneducated persons, given the mindset created by the Latin Church with dogmas like the Immaculate Conception which appear, even to theologically educated non-Latin Christians, as an elevation of the Theotokos to an ontological level above and beyond humanity, lays the foundation for a grave danger of heresy, of the creation of a "Goddess".

[wmfights]

"The veneration in some sects sure looks like it has changed into cult worship though." I agree, though I must say I have never seen this in Orthodoxy.

I'm not sure I understand the reason it is not corrected, but I don't believe the hearts of those that fall into it are bad just misguided. I think your right about EO not getting caught up in it.

[annalex]

I know what is meant by that when used by recognized Latin theologians and its likely OK, its use by otherwise theologically uneducated persons, given the mindset created by the Latin Church with dogmas like the Immaculate Conception which appear, even to theologically educated non-Latin Christians, as an elevation of the Theotokos to an ontological level above and beyond humanity

This is, of course, a perfectly valid concern that better schooled Catholics share. But on the other hand, we cannot accept or reject theological truths just for pastoral reasons.