Annalex, earlier today you asked...
"I am not looking for doctrinal fights with any of you over this, but this is something that honestly perplexes me....do you have any insight into what these people were thinking as they removed the Holy Spirit from the Trinity and put Mary into the Trinity?".I would suggest this thread as a good place to gain insight, into why some people think the way they do.
Yes, but as you know Catholicism has the same virus going. Good thing we don't get to vote on doctrinal matters. This I am familiar with, and I am resigned to the fact that the wee worshipers are going to be with us.
My question this morning was not "Where these people are coming from socially?" (I know where, -- Harvard), but rather "where are they coming from scripturally, traditionally, and theologically?"
I gave the example of how Christianity can be reasonably feminized: Mother, Daughter, Love (or, quite scripturally, Advocate). This I'd shrug off as so much silliness.
Another example is various christological heresies, e.g. Divine Father, Human Son, etc., or Trinity as three gods. I can see how one reads the scripture and comes away with these. Again, heretical and wrong but not puzzling.
There is a Catholic feminization of the Holy Trinity project too. It is, I believe, Creator, Redeemer, Advocate. Dumb, but not surprising.
This "womb" thing floored me because of the totally unintended, I am sure, mariological aspect. Calvinists invented Mariolator Trinity! It is not just liberal, it is --- words fail me.