I think you meant "imply." And no, I do not imply this.
I state it as fact. Simple, unadulterated, inarguable fact. Your lack of familiarty with Jesus' teachings speaks for itself. Read your Bible, and you won't have to ask me where Jesus said this.
You are stating this as not fact, but your warped subjective point of view and poor ignorance of The Church. You have a lot of nerve painting Catholics as having a "lack of familiarty with Jesus' teachings". I suggest you attend a Catholic bible study (News flash: Catholics DO read the bible, and we do this every week at my parish) to see for yourself that Catholics today are NOT ignorant of His teachings, but pray and try to live His teachings daily.
Amazingly, (although not to us) we've had many "converts" including ex baptist ministers, ex prodestant seminary students who have "seen" Jesus' message through the eyes of The Church. Many come back to The Church because they are sick of the "man made" (fill in your own blank) that is passed as "reformation."
We have the gift of what you call "confession" or what it is now called "reconcilliation." We confess our sins to God, in the name of His Son, NOT the priest. The priest is there as our supporter, and offers comfort when we are troubled by our sins. At least, we are not too proud to admit when we sin, or when we are wrong, unlike many of the "holier than thou" crowd.
Bottom line. We are one people, with One God. We are ALL The Body of Christ. Deal with it. Christ has.
I never painted Catholics as being generally deficient in their Bible study, I chided one person for not being familiar with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
If you misread your Bible the way you misread my post, that could be a big part of your problem.
Where in the Bible does Christ tell us to confess our sins to a man (priest)? Where in the Bible does Christ tell us that we should ever pray to the virgin Mary for anything?
If nowhere in the Bible are we thus instructed, then how can it be Biblically sound to do so? That which does not come from the Bible does not come from God, but from Man... or worse.
I do love and pray for you.
Good, then perhaps you are knowledgable enough to help with a Bible question: Where in the Holy Bible did Jesus or any of the Apostles ever "venerate images" or teach anyone else to do so?