No, I use different words to pray, but they are always directed to my creator, not to my Mother, Father, Uncle Bob, Mary, Peter or anyone else who is not part of the Godhead.
What’s wrong with going straight to the One who made us, and paid a dear price for our souls?
Ed
That violates Christ's commandment. Or are you only literal in places?
What’s wrong with going straight to the One who made us, and paid a dear price for our souls?
Absolutely nothing. Thus, you never ask anyone to pray for you, correct?
What’s wrong with going straight to the One who made us, and paid a dear price for our souls?
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INDEED . . .
—Welllllll uhhhh . . .
Jesus is soooo . . . welll so God . . . and all . . .
Mary is so much more . . . accessible . . . all Motherly and all . . . nice lap all nurturing and all . . .
[COME UNTO ME all you that labor and are heavy laden . . . ]
Yeah, wellllll . . . that’s all nice and good and all but . . . MUMMY JUST BEATS OUT GOD HANDS DOWN, every time . . .
[Which part of HAVE NO OTHER GODS (icons, images, personages, idols, priorities . . .) BEFORE ME (do Roman Catholics/Vatican affiliates not get???)
OH, WELL! [ruffling feathers] MARY’S NO GOD—WE JUST TREAT HER (memory, personage, image, fantasies about her) LIKE ONE errrrr uhhhh strike that . . . uhhhh . . .
Mary and her warm lap are ALWAYS SOOOOOOO WELCOMING [in our fantasies] . . . we just never know when Jesus might get the whip and drive us out like the money changers given that we are so imperfect at all our necessary obligations and all . . . .
And Mary always has such nice smelling white hankies and spiritual candy for us. All Jesus has is yokes and a daily cross and troubles to rejoice in and lots of other refining unfun stuff.
Jesus and THE FATHER . . . Goodness . . . Daddy was strict and stern enough. Who needs a daily session with eternal GOD-STRICTNESS! No thanks. Mary’s nurturing sweetness and warm shoulder or warm lap are just what my bruised ego needs several times a day. So many people just don’t get how angelic I am so I NEED Mary’s comfort to get over the pain of it all. I don’t need more Christ or Father’s conviction about my imperfections and more exhortations about towing the line more strictly. /sar
Mary’s soooo much more . . . . wellll Motherly. And I always did better lobbying Mummy. So Mary helps me feel like I have more of a useful level of INFLUENCE, that’s it, INFLUENCE in high places. My lobbying skills just kind of pick up with Mary where they left off with Mummy. It feels all quite normal and . . . productive. I was very good at lobbying Mummy compared to Daddy.
And Mary’s empathy is sooooo familiar and Mummy-like. So comforting and conventional.
[He was touched with the feelings of our infirmities]
Yeah but the Goddess’s, I mean Mary’s warm feminine smile; her nice ageless face; the soft magicsterical kosherness of her Roman Catholic clothing . . . it’s all sooooo familiar and comforting.
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/sar