There are many things we do out of ignorance or conditioning that we do not recognize on ourselves. Jesus said “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The mantra of the church is that praying to Mary and giving her titles of God are really not worship but ‘veneration.’ To the outside eye though, it looks exactly like worship. Do you all consciously set up another god? No. I don’t believe most do (though there are some who would like her ‘deified’. They are a fringe).
Fair enough, from your point of view. I’m glad you don’t believe there is some sorta conpiracy of Mary worship amongst Catholics, just that we are ignorant of the Mary worship you believe we perform. That’s what I meant when I said you think we worship the Blessed Mother badly—the quality of worship has to go up when the worshipper admits that there actually is worship.
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