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>> The veneration of Mary is not any difference than veneration of Baal.

Showing respect for Mary, the mother of Christ, is no different than showing respect for the cult god of fertility?

To what extend do you show "respect" for Mary? You pray to her. You ask her for her help. You build altars and shrines to her. You even invent doctrine that has no evidence in scripture supporting her.

And we're suppose to believe this is "showing respect". I'm sure this was the same rational the Israelites duped themselves into thinking that was used during Ahab's time when Baal worship was the king's choice.

Exo 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Exo 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me.

Exo 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Exo 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

I don't know how much more clearer God can be.