[Belteshazzar]

Cronos wrote:

“I’m pointing out one thing — Baptists do not worship the Bible as a book, neither do Catholics worship statues. We both hold what is in the Bible as holy.”

No disagreement.

And I take you at your word that you didn’t intend to say anything more that the one thing you said. However, whether intentionally or not, I am suggesting that you put your finger on something very important that tends to divide, for example, Catholics and Baptists. In fact, it tends to get them shouting at each other pretty quickly. This thing, I would contend, needs careful and reasonable examination. But maybe that is too much to hope for in such a format as this.

[Quix]

I have known folks in congregations I’ve been a part of who were over the line into worshipping the printed Scriptures. I was dangerously close, myself during parts of my life.

However, I haven’t observed it to be a ragingly common thing. And at it’s worst, it was still greatly different—greatly less in intensity and focus than what I’ve observed with respect to Mary et al.

The people overly focused on the Printed Scriptures STILL would have insisted, though somewhat inaccurately, consciously and verbally that they were NOT obsessed with the printed Scriptures but were instead focusing on their Author.

[Cronos]

In fact, it tends to get them shouting at each other pretty quickly.

The shouting serves no purpose -- the moment one starts shouting, the other stops listening. It's the worst way to make your point as then, even if you are correct, no one will listen to you.