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?
“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.”
Let’s be clear that you do not know the heart of every Roman. Your statement claims you do.
Bowing before statues and pictures is idolatry. Roman Catholics do this.
Turning Mary and other saints into demigods is idolatry.
“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?
Have you paid attention to your priesthood?
Have you paid attention to your leaders?
Have you read about the gay infestation in the Vatican??
So yes. Idolatry in Catholicism has resulted in an immoral church.
“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
Rich and roll can’t hold a candle to:
Perverting the Gospel of Grace, that is the only path to salvation
Slaughtering believers because they disagree
Buggering boys
Gay sex and drug parties in the Vatican.
And so much more.
Man! Are you paying attention??
Making an image of Mary, putting it in a *church* and bowing down before it and lighting candles to it and praying to it violates the second commandment.
No need to even get into the semantic hairsplitting of making up separate words to describe what Catholic do with Mary to excuse it as not being worship.
The bowing down can be clearly and objectively seen. No need to worry about mind reading.
Making an image and bowing before it is sin according to God.