“Perhaps you’ve missed the many many threads where Roman Catholics tell us they pray to Mary and to dead saints for intercession and mercy and even (gasp) yes, even salvation.”
Missed? No, time and again I’ve seen Catholics attempt to explain Catholicism to you, and then cringed at your total inability to understand what you were being told, and your unwillingness even to try.
It’s embarrassing, really. Like Rodney Dangerfield at a fancy restaurant, only not funny.
“Your own catechism alludes to Mary’s supposed responsibility for God’s saving grace.”
It’s an interesting intellectual problem, really: how to communicate to a person like you that he has misunderstood everything he thinks he knows.
Probably beyond mortal means.
“Rome gets so much wrong”
Fascinating. Dozens, or perhaps even hundreds of people took the time and trouble to explain your errors to you, with great patience and prayerful forbearance in the face of insult after insult and your obdurate refusal to hear, and after all that, you think it’s Holy Mother Church, the Spiritual Bride of Christ, who is wrong.
I have never seen anything analagous except in the behavior of schizophrenics.
lol. Not only is that remark against the rules of the RF, but it is a terrific example of the fact that Roman Catholic apologists view any and all disagreement with their opinions as some kind of lack of understanding.
LOL. Hey. We get it. We really do. We understand you think Mary is a mediator between God and men when Paul clearly states there is only one God and one mediator between men and God, the man, Christ Jesus.
We are not ill-informed. We understand the RCC's feeble justification for its nutty beliefs and practices.
And we disagree with them, according to the truth of the word of God made known to believers by the Holy Spirit. Not by the catechism. Not by the church. Not by the pope. And most certainly not by Mary.
you think it’s Holy Mother Church, the Spiritual Bride of Christ, who is wrong.
If by church you mean the Roman Catholic church, then yes, it is often wrong. If by church you mean the fellowship of all true believers, the lively stones who make up Christ's church on earth, then no, that church is not wrong.
But nothing on earth is perfect. And that includes the church because the church is made up of men and men are fallible. Some churches contain more truth than others, as they vary according to how faithful they are to the word of God. And some have so departed from the Christian faith that they are, as the Westminster Confession of Faith states, "synagogues of Satan."
"Flee from idolatry."