In the haste to assert a monochromatic Gospel, they end up preaching that God is less loving than humans are, and less respectful of the mother of His Son than the average drugged hoodlum scattering bastards throughout the neighborhood ios of the poor girls he impregnates.
It is remarkable to me that among the proponents of the "Mary as rent-a-womb" crowd there are so many women. I have watched the wonderful relationship between my wife and our daughter and can extrapolate from the way my daughter calls forth wisdom and love from her mother what Jesus did for Mary throughout their earthly time together.
No wonder the welcoming of the surrogate mother, of conception in a test-tube with the regrettable but what do you want us to do "disposal" of the left over fetuses.
Here is where what you are calling "hypocrisy" begins to open its unwitting (IMHO) blossom. Of course many of our Protestant brothers and sisters utterly condemn this contempt for parenthood. But while they throw it out the front door, their theology pulls it in the back door: Mary was just a kind of a vat on legs. Why not hire a rent-a-womb? After all, that's what God did.
“...”Mary as rent-a-womb” crowd there are so many women...”
We were discussing this this morning. There certainly is a self-referential aspect to women’s (and men’s) attitude toward Mary.
BTW, speaking of Dr. Peck, do you remember a psychiatrist named Bloom? I think he died a few years ago, a relatively young man, about 50 years old.
He wrote on culture and neurosis. One book, the last was on toxic interpersonal relationships. Brilliant man, very clear and erudite. Deeply religious and I cannot remember his name.