HELLO?
Just as Prottys cannot accurately determine what is in the heart/mind of any other Protty OR RC . . .
NEITHER CAN ANY RC
declare accurately, emphatically, that
NO RC worships Mary.
That knife cuts both ways.
It boggles my mind that RC’s are not more logically alert to such facts.
HUMANS ARE INHERENTLY IDOLATROUS. That’s just a fact.
It’s a fact in every Protty congregation as well as every RC congregation. Naysaying doesn’t remove it.
It takes Biblical focus on God and dogged ruthlessness with one’s self as well as Holy Spirit’s help with the Sword of The Spirit to keep one’s self free from idolatry.
THAT’S TRUE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ONE IS PROTTY OR RC.
It’s just a human fact.
ADD IN THE !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! and outrageous encouragements TOWARD overweening
VENERATION, ADORATION [and other pseudonyms for worship]
on the part of the magisterical . . .
it becomes a very serious problem.
Of course, SOME RC’s are no MORE prone to idolatry than SOME prottys.
That’s a far cry from saying NO RC’s are idolatrous.
What arrogance . . . RC’s would have us believe
that THEIR CONGREGATIONS
AMONGST ALL THE RELIGIOUS GROUPS ON THE PLANET
ARE
NOT
IDOLATROUS!
That’s like saying . . .
South Seas Islanders are
MOST averse of all the countries of the world,
to swimming.
Balderdash.
No it isn't.
>>That’s a far cry from saying NO RC’s are idolatrous.<<
Which is a far cry from saying that all Roman Catholics are.
Yes they can. Deifying Mary is prohibited by the Catholic Church. Anyone who does so is therefore not Catholic. You cannot be Catholic and believe that Mary is part of the godhead or not a creation of God.
Neither can you declare that no Protestant commit adultery but that does not make adultery a part of the Protestant faith. If any Catholic should actually worship Mary (something that I find hard to believe) then criticize him for being a bad Catholic; do not attribute his serious sin against the Catholic faith to the faith itself. That would just be intellectually dishonest.
VENERATION, ADORATION [and other pseudonyms for worship]
If you think that these are just pseudonyms for worship then you understand less than you think you do. There is a clear line that separates them and it would be a grave sin for any Catholic to cross it.
What arrogance . . . RC’s would have us believe that THEIR CONGREGATIONS AMONGST ALL THE RELIGIOUS GROUPS ON THE PLANET ARE NOT IDOLATROUS!
I guess it is humility to posit that the congregation of one known as Qwix is the only one that is not idolatrous.