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To: XeniaSt
The L-rd G-d condemns the worship of the queen of heaven !

The Lord God knows the difference between pagan goddesses of antiquity and Mary the Mother of God, even if you do not.

343 posted on 07/27/2008 11:00:00 AM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: Petronski
When people add the title of "Queen of Heaven" to maid Miriam,
it is an insult to Miriam and and insult to the king of the universe
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

344 posted on 07/27/2008 11:03:39 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: Petronski
Some non-Catholics not only distrust reason but also have a kind of touching faith in a kind of superstitious nominalism.

And what do I mean by that? An extreme example is the Jehovah's Witnesses who think that the very shape of a cross makes God angry. They argue that Jesus was not crucified but "impaled", by which they seem to mean not by what most of us mean by "impale" — to be run through, usually lengthwise, by a stake — but suspended from a stake in the ground. So they say that the mere use of a cross is bad because some pagans used that shape in their worship or syumbolism or somesuch. The fact that subsequent generations have made mush of a cross in complete and sincere ignorance or rejection of any possible pagan meaning cuts no ice with them. The cross shape is BAD.

So because some pagans had a notion of a queen of heaven who was probably a fertility-mystery figure, blending Isis, Hera and Aphrodite, (Lewis has a fine such goddess in Til We Have Faces), therefore the very phrase "Queen of Heaven" must not be used in any sense at all, even if it means to denote the Mother of our Lord who by His act was given great honor in heaven.It's a kind of irrational superstition and the sort of fearfulness from which our Lord came to set us free. We celebrate the far beyond our imagining mercy of Jesus and they mistake us for worshippers of some fertility goddess because we say something which sounds like something those other people said.

371 posted on 07/27/2008 1:12:01 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Petronski; Dr. Eckleburg
. . . hmmmm . . .

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS . . .

walks like a duck
quacks like a duck
squats like a duck
swims like a duck
bobs like a duck
flies like a duck
waddles like a duck
genuflects like a duck
fondles beads like a duck
uses white hankies like a duck
. . .

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

An RC magicsterical duck imposter!

with fresh feathers made out of scraps of white hankies.

385 posted on 07/27/2008 1:18:18 PM PDT by Quix (key QUOTES POLS 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)
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