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I will obey the instructions of Jesus, rather than recite the man-made, non-authoritative Hail Mary

This is a direct quote. I ask again, do you ever make up your own prayers or do you only quote Scripture when you pray to God? For if you do, you are praying a "man-made" prayer.

Don't worry, I'm hardly a "wounded Catholic victim". I WILL NOT stand for Catholic-bashing, however and I detect an undertone in your posts which leads me to believe you are engaging in such. FReegards!

Again you misunderstand. Jesus gave us a model for our prayer. In fact, he gave us several. I do my best to follow Jesus' teachings. These are models, or patterns, for prayer. I never intmated that I only prayed scripture. (Though praying scripture can be powerful.)

The man-made prayer I was referring to is one that violates the teachings of the Bible, because it is obviously a prayer TO Mary, who is NOT God. I won't pray in accordance with that.

If the teachings of the Catholic church are not open to debate, then it would appear more like a cult than a religion. I'm sure you don't intend to give that impression, do you?

You seem to be using the same technique that John Kerry is using to stifle discussion of his record. I'm sure you don't intend that either, do you?