Mariaphobic?
Just because I do not believe that Mary is a deity and does not have more power than Jesus or God, I am Mary-phobic?
I pray to God is Jesus’ name, because that is Christian.
The very idea that praying to dead, mortal humans to intercede for Jesus tells me you think all your human-appointed Saints (10,000 or so?) have more power than Jesus.
They have no power to “intercede”. It is blasphemy to think that poor widdle weak Jesus needs others to intercede. Nothing in the bible supports this idea.
You use that word “intercede” to apply to Catholic teaching.
I do not think it means for us what you think it means...
What you posted is not true - what Evangelicals believe Catholics believe is nowhere near the truth. But - as the article says Evangelicals insist on telling Catholics what Catholics believe, instead of listening to the Catholics when they tell them what they actually believe.
Here's the issue in the article: WHY do you spend so much time hyperventilating over Mary-as-goddess (something no Catholic believes), when it would seem to be a lot more rational to be having fits over the fact that we do believe that the Blessed Sacrament is Jesus - body and blood, soul and divinity. (Jack Chick has periodic fits over it, but nobody on FR seems to ever mention it.)
He (gives; permits; allows) them to intercede. Nothing like "needing" them to intercede. Surely you can see the difference.
Hope Walmart's pharmacy is open today. I'm off to pick up my RX. Note that although Jesus didn't NEED for WMRT to fulfill the prescription (he could have made the drug magically appear in my veins), He allowed them to intercede (because that's the way the world normally works).
Amen GeronL. But it will be lost on the Papists.
You have to understand the psychology of demonizing the people you hate.
Calling people who don’t accept the divinity of Mary “Mariaphobic is exactly analogous to calling people who don’t believe we should redefine the parameters of marriage “homophobic”.
They are both hateful and counterproductive name calling.
“Just because I do not believe that Mary is a deity and does not have more power than Jesus or God, I am Mary-phobic?”
It’s just unseemly for Christians to be adopting homosexual language and leftist tactics in order to guilt trip other Christians into silence.
Saw more info also about “purgatory” how many mass’s does it take to pray ones relatives out of “purgatory”? The answer seems to be,how much money do you have left to pay for a special mass.The answer is always more,,and soon we hope we are successful.Alas in the Catholic church we are never assured of salvation.