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Mary is like a golden calf?

Huh?

Let's look at that passage again with emphasis:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron. And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD. - Exodus 32:3-5

Calves are not evil. Mary is not evil.

The glory which was due to God for bringing them out of Egypt they instead gave to their "image" of gods and worse they felt it was perfectly ok to celebrate/worship God in front of the "image."

For me, the bottom lines from that passage are:

1. Give God the glory, don't give glory due to Him to anyone or anything else.

2. Don't imagine anyone or anything to be like Him.

3. Don't insult God by celebrating or worshiping Him in proximity to either of the above two abominations.