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To: blackpacific
Idolatry is putting something in the place of God, who/which is not God. Any such entity elevated in this way is an abomination. (e.g. Sex/drugs/rocknroll, these are modern day idols one should avoid.)

Yes, 'saints', relics, the church of rome, Mary, the pope...

Catholics do not do that.

1. You cannot speak for the hearts of all catholics. Sorry.
2. God indicates that bowing down to these things is idolatry.

It puts in the place of true religion a false man-made religion.

No. It puts Christ and His finished work at the middle of a relationship with Him. Religion is for people that don't know him and need rituals, sacraments, holy water, etc.

It is to prevent souls from having access to the Sacraments.

There is no sacramental system to dispense grace found in the NT.

32 posted on 09/20/2018 7:33:46 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

None of the things you say Catholics do are found in the real world, they exist only in your mind. I should know, I have been a Catholic for over 50 years, and I have known many Catholics and none of them have ever practiced any type of idolatry. You can make all kind of strange arguments based on similitudes about Catholic practices, like veneration of relics, icons, images, statues, and the like, but none of that is done as a form of idolatry; we know what we are doing, we know the difference between Creator and creature, we know the level of honor we give a saint or the Blessed Virgin Mary, and we know the honor we give to God.

Spinning your silly caricatures of what you think Catholicism is not very enlightening for anyone, precisely because you have never experienced the gifts and graces that flow from the One and only Church that Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior founded.

It is sad because there is so little time we have on this earth to love God and neighbor and to grow in holiness and grace. If we do not become perfect in charity now, we will have to accomplish it later.

Idolatry is a very serious sin with very serious consequences. You trivialize it by your wild claims against the Bride of Christ. Look at the fruits of Catholicism, what are they? I would think that if super duper bad bad idolatry is found within her than one would see really really bad results?

Now take a real idolatry, like rock-n-roll music. It urges christians to abandon the moral law, to be ruled by their passions, and to engage in any and all forms of sexual license. It also ridicules the divine law/true religion. It puts self-love at the apex and pinnacle of human experience. The results? Lets see, abortion, which is nothing other than the most prolific example of human sacrifice in human history, STD’s, contraception, same sex attraction, sodomy, all forms of sexual deviancy, drug use, demonic possession, do you see the difference here between your supposed idolatry and real idolatry?

Maybe if you focused on eradicating real idolatry your efforts would benefit mankind and have a positive impact on the salvation of souls?


33 posted on 09/20/2018 9:08:58 PM PDT by blackpacific
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