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**(In fact, you should never dishonor anyone’s mother.)**

Ditto, but I would never bow to a statue of anyone’s mother.

Jesus Christ knew exactly what he was doing when he made sure his written Word would have no quotes from him directly addressing Mary as ‘mother’, for he knew that vain men and women would soon elevate her to near god status.

What Mary ‘mothered’, hungered, thirsted, even died and was buried. “But him hath GOD raised up”.

I honestly don't know anyone who sees Mary as a goddess -- Catholics simply ask Mary to pray to God for them, much like many people on Free Republic ask others here to pray for them also. That "worship" accusation that some people make is simply a false claim.

When faithful Catholics kneel to pray (to God), they sometimes use artistic statues or icons of Mary or other saints to draw their mind and attention to the person depicted in the artistic representation who they are asking to also pray for them or with them to God. They are not bowing down to worship anyone but God. You are misinterpreting what is going on.

We know now that . . . the verse about:

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he . . . Prov 23:7

is more LITERALLY TRUE than anyone had imagined.

What we think about and speak about A LOT, can even change our DNA.

We also know that significant degrees of early childhood ATTACHMENT DISORDER leave such children somewhat literally brain-damaged in terms of how they handle emotions and relationships.

I believe we are seeing a similar BRAIN ALTERING phenomena regarding

The Vatican Ashteroth-Mary-Goddess caricature that so many RC's are addicted to worshiping so blasphemously.

Their brains have increasingly obviously been altered by all the brainwashing, propaganda of the INSTITUTION as well, no doubt, by the demonic forces assisting therewith--that they evidently literally CANNOT distinguish between

veneration, adoration, worship

and continue to spout the dogmatic party line as an excuse to continue the only thing their brains know how to do regarding the Ashteroth-Mary-Goddess caricature, personage.

i.e. worship her--as their words, tones, emotions, actions etc. so emphatically demonstrate--while verbally and mentally DENYING ALL THE WAY that the obvious is taking place.

INCREDIBLE. I knew there was something missing in our understanding of what was going on with them. Maybe this is it.