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Catholics underestimate how much articles like this are like nails on a blackboard to Protestants who view this elevation of Mary as outright idolatry,...

No they don't.

Amen! The elevation of Mary is just pure idolatry. They say it's not and try to wiggle and squirm, fitting this misguided doctrine into a pretended context; but at the end of the day it is nothing more than bowing down to something made of stone. And they know it. This "veneration" is nothing more that a fancy word for worship. They try to fit it in between respect and worship but it doesn't quite work. Yet they don't discourage people from venerating mold on a NJ tunnel.

btw-I found this a hoot...

Let's turn to Genesis, chapter 3. There we see the first Eve having been seduced and, I believe, brutally intimidated into a kind of disobedient...There is a literary artistry there at work that's very hard for the Western mind to grasp, understand and appreciate. But I believe, submission....Total misreading, I believe. This is my own hypothesis. This is my own interpretation.

And they accuse us Protestants for developing our own interpretations? HA!