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To: steve86
It is logically impossible for someone to be the "Queen of Heaven" (God, being the King of heaven) and not be deity. Whether you believe it or not, you have deified her.

And no, it doesn't "ruin my day" to think that there are Christians who have allowed paganism to seep into their faith. But it does give cause for sadness.

25 posted on 08/01/2009 2:50:20 PM PDT by Guyin4Os (My name says Guyin40s but now I have an exotic, daring, new nickname..... Guyin50s)
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To: Guyin4Os
It is logically impossible for someone to be the "Queen of Heaven" (God, being the King of heaven) and not be deity.

No, you have fallen victim to a fallacy:

God is a deity and is a king
Mary is a queen.
Therefore, Mary must be a deity.

That is fallacious.

Mary is the Queen of Heaven and Earth without being a deity and there is no logical necessity that she must be.

34 posted on 08/01/2009 3:15:25 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Guyin4Os

“Whether you believe it or not, you have deified her.”

Man, Catholics can’t even get that right, eh? At least the pagans admit to their goddess worship, I bet it is even required!! But Catholics are such bad goddess worshippers they kick anyone out of the Church who proclaims they worship Mary, which would seem to be counter productive to the fostering of goddess worship.

If Catholics did deify Mary (we don’t)we would tell you about it. Why the heck wouldn’t we? It’s not like Catholics are famous for agonizing about what other types of Christians think about the Catholic Church. “Oh no, the other sorts of Christians will think even worse of us if we admit to our hidden Mary worship!!” isn’t something I could see the Pope saying, for instance.

Freegards


59 posted on 08/01/2009 4:47:01 PM PDT by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
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