“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??
The sex scandal in the Catholic Church is a freemason objective, and is well documented. Long before the disaster of Vatican Council II the freemasons were being recruited to infiltrate the hierarchy in order to destroy it. Look up Bella Dodd. Once at the reins of the Church a concerted effort was made to hire homosexual priests to implement the destruction of the liturgy, the catechesis, and just about every beautiful aspect of the Catholic Church. Catholics are starting to wake up to the fact that 83% of the abuse was and is homosexual predators against teenage boys, only 7% is classic pedophilia, yet the liberal media constantly reports that the Catholic Church has a pedo problem.
The Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ can be compared to Melania and Donald Trump. She is not the President, but she goes around and visits American citizens and encourages them, especially sick children in hospitals fighting cancer, leukemia, etc. Does Melania take anything away from Donald Trump or his mission? If anything she adds to his effectiveness. The Blessed Virgin Mary does the same for Christ. She does not take anything away, she adds to His mission of saving every soul.
If you look closely at our prayers to Mary, we ask her to “pray for us”, just like you or I would ask each other to pray for each other. When we address God, we ask Him to “have mercy on us”. You will never see a Catholic ask Mary for mercy, that is the province of God alone.
“Advantage to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers.” http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23religios.htm
The Church knew about the dangers years ago, but the destroying angels who infiltrated the priesthood and hierarchy knew exactly what would happen if they hired homo priests. It was known and planned starting in the late ‘60s. So yes, I have been paying attention, but you should know that the problem is not a “Catholic” thing, it is a freemason thing. Think of it as cancer, it is in the body but it does not belong to the body.