“I have no idea as to how strong your faith is, but mine is strong enough not to pray to $19.95 worth of plaster.”
Mine is strong enough not to need the piece of plaster to begin with. And if I had one as a decoration or to commemorate Christ’s birth, it would be a visual symbol for people to receive the message of the Gospel, not to bow to, pray toward, or burn incense to.
If I set a nativity scene up in my yard, I would not feel compelled to say my prayers to the image of baby Jesus. Nor would I recruit others to such folly. And I certainly would not waste countless hours promoting the practice when it had been repeatedly shown from the word of God the error or at least the danger of such acts.
Me too...where do you get the idea that Catholics worship their nativity scenes, we have had ours for over 50 years and I wrap it in tissue and store it with the rest of our Christmas stuff in a plastic tote ...it is a collectors set, quite valuable, but just figurines made out of who knows what.