[RobbyS]

He is really talking about the effect of beauty,and a rejection of iconoclasm. You have more in common with the Muslims than with the early Christians, who decorated tomb with religious symbols, most commonly, the image of the Good Shepard. The cult of Mary began in earnst in the 4th century as part of the rejection of Arianism, which like Muslms later, denied the Incarnation. The title of Mother of God, or Theotokos, as the Greeks have it, was given Mary at the Council of Ephesus, in affirmation of the hypostatic union, and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. In the time of Mohammed, there was a heretical sect in Arabia that taught that Mary was the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, which belief is still among Muslims today. But when they call us idoloters, they are speaking of our belief in the divinity of Jesus.

[Dutchboy88]

Attempting to sanitize the amalgamation of Idolatry, Superstition, False Doctrine over the “Mother of God” won’t work here. We read the Scriptures. Your organization has wrongly elevated and venerated Mary to the point of demonic error.