[The Cuban]

Whoops it didn’t post No its not necessary for sLvation. However it is a truth. I really don’t get the Protestant aversion to honoring the Mother of Jesus. Heck I respect and pay deference to my friends mothers out of respect. I certainly don’t talk sh*t about them and sometimes hang out with them. Non-protestant Christians know that death cannot separate the Christian Community because Jesus conquered it. Just like you ask your mom to pray for you we ask Mary (the first Christian by the way) to pray for us. After all what Mary asks of her son, Jesus is quite willing to do, just ask the guests at the wedding at Canaa.

Also don’t respond with “Catholics worship Mary” or think she is necessary for salvation which is false. (Regardless Why would she lead anyone away from her Son?) If you want to argue first read the actual Catechism of the Church and refute it. It’s available online. Google it.

Don’t go quoting some ex disgruntled ex catholic or snake charming West Virginia hick or some malnourished 16th Century Northern European religious malcontent.

[kosciusko51]

If it is not necessary for salvation, then why criticize those who don’t believe, or frankly, don’t see the need for the additional veneration of her?

I have no problem with the term Theotokos (God-bearer) for Mary, and mother of Jesus is also an accurate title for her.

PS: I’m not sure why you needed to use a scatological term to get your point across.

[Elsie]

Don't go quoting some ex disgruntled ex catholic or snake charming West Virginia hick or some malnourished 16th Century Northern European religious malcontent.

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Luke 18:9-14

⁹ And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:

¹⁰ "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'

¹³ But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

[metmom]

I really don’t get the Protestant aversion to honoring the Mother of Jesus.

Don't move the goalposts.

Nobody dishonors the mother of Jesus.

We object to the wrong title of Mother of God and the inaccuracies that are created about her by Catholicism and passed off as truth.