[Desdemona]

so is anything which challenges to the least degree any hint of idolatrous sensibilities toward persons, images, traditions, offices, customs, RELIGIOUS ASSUMPTIONS, structures etc. etc. etc.

Such notions must be corrected.

Though, interestingly, The Bible doesn’t seem to ‘earn’ such fierce protective rants from the ‘faithful.’

We hold it as Sacred and necessary, but it's not the only source of teaching. It is one of three pillars of the Faith along with Sacred Tradition (which is regularly maligned) and the Magisterium - and in the form of a closed canon, is the newest of the three. Scripture is. Several of the basic Catholic prayers are direct quotes, mostly from the Gospel according to Luke.

I would venture to say that INTERPRETATIONS of various readings spur just as many arguments as various teachings on the use of religious art.

[Quix]

I was just speaking as an observer . . . a very trained psychological/ sociological observer

of the differences in fierceness and emotional intensity of the relative posts re:

Mary
The Pope
The Magisterical
The Edifice
The Structure
!!!!TRADITION!!!!
The Saints
etc. etc. etc.

compared to

similar re the Bible.

Quite a difference.

How do you explain it to the person in your mirror?