A) I don't hate the RC edifice.
B) I certainly don't hate the authentic Mary, Mother of Jesus.
I do hate the snow job satan has achieved with the RC edifice along a number of lines involving:
1. rank, brazen, outrageous idolatry and blasphemy . . . as well as
2. raising political RELIGIOUS POWER MONGERING to an art form and calling it holy.
I'm thoroughly and utterly convinced that such things are from the pit in every group and denomination of any significant age whatsoever and all amongst the worst in the most !!!!TRADITIONAL!!!!, fossilized, calcified, rigid, narrow, spiritually ignorant of such RELIGIOUS organizations--of which the RC edifice is a prime example.
I didn't write THE STANDARD. God did. And against HIS STANDARD, the RC edifice itself indicts, accuses, demonstrates it's own guilt relentlessly, brazenly, wholesale across the planet in a myriad of ways.
It is not hatred to point out where God's standard is 180 degrees from an individual's or a group's persistently demonstrated lived walk, life, existence. On the contrary, there's likely much love in persisting in such courageous efforts.
Some of us don't hate much of anything except satan and his works.
Humans--all of us--are flawed works-in-progress.
Certainly some with some tenacious support of satan's schemes, memes, efforts, perspectives, strategies, deceptions, idolatries, blasphemies . . . can be annoying, frustrating and troublesome to deal with. But hate is not on the able--not for me, anyway.
C) Christ did not establish the RC edifice. There's no reasonable Biblical basis for it and no historical basis for such a conclusion. Rubber Bibles and Rubber histories do not count. Noise to the contrary is mere noise and myopic "IN-GROUP" blindness.
imho, the sickness is siding with satan in behalf of the very things Christ Himself most fiercely railed against.
The sickness is in making of Mary a blasphemous, idolatrous cartoon figure she herself would be furious about if God allows her to know about such travesties at all.
One day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. There will be NO Hail Mary's first; No rushing to Mary's presumed bosom for a quick consultation about whether such is kosher, or not; No looking back wistfully at the statue in the local grotto or alcove or altar.
Those who can wholeheartedly sing
ALL MY PRAISE TO CHRIST ALONE
Will gather at His feet. I'm not sure what He'll do with those double-minded sorts who give 80% of their time, energy and attention to a satanic blasphemous, idolatrous farce labeled in Mary's name. But I wouldn't want to place my bets on His pleasure with them.
Amen, Quix.