Mary, there is no merit in refusing to understand what those who disagree with you think. Do you REALLY think that J2P2 did not think that God was ultimately responsible for his surviving the assassination attempt? Do you really think that he did not thank God? This is not play here. Many of you guys not only obviously hate us but revel in your hatred and so insist on misunderstanding.
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Word choices matter, MD.
You are away in the Navy. For 2 years on super secret sub assignments.
You come home. Wife, kids, dog come running out to greet you. You stoop down and pet the dog and talk to the dog about how wonderful, warm, furry and friendly he is and how you've missed him.
You stand up and ask the wife what's for dinner. She protests.
You assert she should have known you missed her!
Why ever choose Mary over God?
The comment about the future anthropologists/archeologists would be true.
Have you read Veritatis Splendor? Fides et Ratio? Any of J2P2's stuff? You know what he thinks from sound bites? You know how he chooses words from sound bites?
You know about the date of the assasination attempt and what it meant to him -- BEFORE you Google it? You have no clue what Marian Spirituality is about. And you don't know about the hours he spent prostrate before an altar and crucifix -- which now no doubt you will characterize as idolatry. Nope, one incident arising out of a spirituality which you do not want to understand and you have reached your verdict.
In other news: How how you can put up the posts you put up or look at the first page of this thread and not say the bashing comes mainly and most viciously from Prots escapes me.
"Magicsterical" anyone? How can that have any other purpose than to offend and alienate? What is it accomplishing? It doesn't change my mind, it is offensive and painful to read. You will note I no longer discuss theology with you. Fruits much? I assume you didn't want to discuss theology.
In the face of the abuse that has been aimed at us from around post #9 when I consider the gratuitously offensive mischaracterizations and smug condescension, I am glad I don't have to encounter any of you in the flesh.
Right in this post, you insinuate that some of us are choosing Mary over God? This is incredible to me. It is not worthy of a response other than that.