[caww]

This may sound off base but dang it some of these writings make one think the attraction to Mary went beyond religious...and filled some other need in the life of these people....whatever it is it is not only worship but more as obsession.. and that is an understatement. Furthermore how some can even imagine that God accepts this as it clearly dethrones Christ. Just appauling in my book.

[RnMomof7]

++++++This may sound off base but dang it some of these writings make one think the attraction to Mary went beyond religious...and filled some other need in the life of these people....whatever it is it is not only worship but more as obsession.. and that is an understatement. Furthermore how some can even imagine that God accepts this as it clearly dethrones Christ. Just appauling in my book....
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I believe this whole Mary thing started to attract the pagans that always had a goddess.. teaching like “Mary Queen of Heaven” tend to bear that out

This UNOFFICIAL web site shows how far this goes with some..let in a little leaven and the whole loaf is leavened

http://www.mother-god.com/goddess-mother-mary.html

[Quix]

This may sound off base but dang it some of these writings make one think the attraction to Mary went beyond religious...and filled some other need in the life of these people....whatever it is it is not only worship but more AN obsession.. and that is an understatement. Furthermore how some can even imagine that God accepts this as it clearly dethrones Christ. Just appauling in my book.

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[maryz]

whatever it is it is not only worship but more as obsession

You mean something like the obsession that keeps the anti-Catholics always at the Catholic Church, uwilling to come in and unable to leave it alone? Lots of obsession going around, I guess -- must be something in the water! ;-)

It does seem to me, though, that those who object to Catholics' veneration of Mary see it that way because their own worship of God -- indeed their very understanding of God -- is so stunted, so truncated, so limited that it's no greater than (if as great as) our veneration of Mary. They have no conception of the immeasurably greater worship we offer God.

It seems to be tied in (as with so many things in dispute) with their understanding of Eternity as merely time, only longer. Their God (like the pagan gods) is entirely within Time because they can conceive of nothing outside of time, though this conception makes Time greater than God -- in effect, the real God.

In our view, time itself is a creature. (As I understand it, in the physicists' view, time is merely the fourth dimension. Thus it is as meaningless to place the Eternal God wholly within time as it would be to limit Him to height and width and depth.)