To: TomSmedley
the goddess thing is just too much What are you talking about? Do you think the Catholic Church teaches that Mary is a goddess? If so, where does it teach that? And what sense of the term 'goddess' are you using?
-A8
11 posted on
12/04/2006 8:23:59 PM PST by
adiaireton8
("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
To: adiaireton8
Functionally, and traditionally, the BVM fills the psychic and psychological space occupied by goddesses in pagan religions. A divine entity, an alternate mediator between God and man, an alternate method of salvation, a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering deity who also grants mystical experiences of Herself. The weird vibes surrounding, for example, the "Blue Army of our Lady of Fatima" have the same flavor as those surrounding the deity of Mormonism, another para-Christian cult with an alternate deity. A nice one, mind you.
12 posted on
12/04/2006 8:28:46 PM PST by
TomSmedley
(Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
To: adiaireton8
LOL! Only took 9 posts for one to come out of the woodwork!
4,760 posted on
01/09/2007 5:53:47 PM PST by
ducdriver
("Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." GKC)
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