To the contrary, there are several instances where He was a little abrupt with Mary. Maybe she was being too much of a Jewish mother.
But yeah, this veneration of Mary is pretty much a Catholic thing.
If you Catholics think it is necessary, or that the rest of us are hell-bound because we reject veneration of Jesus’ Mom, well, you could excommunicate us but ... you’ve already done that, so I suppose we’ll just have just have to agree to disagree.
Btw, I don’t accept the label “Protestant”; why don’t you call yourselves Christians, if that’s what you are, instead of Catholics?
Sure you recognize this polemic, as it is, really isn’t addressed to you.
Another way of looking at this might be, I’m sure that even among Catholics there must be schisms, those who believe others are in error and whose immortal souls are thus in jeopardy.
The same way muzzie’s see the rest of the world as ‘infidels.’
Well, I’m going to bed. Be a brick and handle the mackeral-snappers for me, will you?
How do you take Mathew 12:48 and turn her into the Queen of Heaven?
48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Btw, I don’t accept the label “Protestant”; why don’t you call yourselves Christians, if that’s what you are, instead of Catholics?
I haven’t researched this, but I believe “Protestant” applies to only a certain group of Church that were formed during a specific time frame in a specific area. I know many mainline Protestants, including my mother and sister, who are perfectly comfortable with the term “Protestant.” It is much better than being called “non-Catholic.”
Well I gotta go, I’m off to Mass. I had the privilege of cantoring at yesterday’s Mass celebrating the Feast of the Assumption. :-)
The light bulb never did get changed? (that's from a joke --how many jewish mothers does it take? none. "that's ok,I'll just sit here in the dark"...said with as much impugning and projecting of "guilt" as can be mustered)
Then again, Jesus had a good excuse for that one. There were no light bulbs in those days...
Here's another one which I've told before;
What is the difference between Jewish babies and "Catholic" babies? Jewish babies are born with guilt, "Catholic" babies have to go to catechism school and learn it...
“To the contrary, there are several instances where He was a little abrupt with Mary. Maybe she was being too much of a Jewish mother.”
Darned if she did, and darned if she didn’t. Mothers are just mothers..even His mother. :)
“Btw, I don’t accept the label “Protestant”; why don’t you call yourselves Christians, if that’s what you are, instead of Catholics?”
Good point...but a Catholic will never give up THE CHURCH. It is their end all and be all as much as they say Jesus is. And they could not risk excommunication and damnation. Lots of reasons why they will NEVER come out of that institution and use just the Christian appellation. PRIDE is another very good reason. Being Catholic sets them apart from the rest of us dumb souls who don’t have the brilliance to believe what they do. And I could go on and on but that is enough for now.