[Blogger]

We could do without the insults to "Protestant offshoots." You have Catholic offshoots who want to deify Mary literally. They petitioned the Pope to do just that. We can distinguish them from Catholics though (even though in Practice, I 100% believe that the veneration of Mary at the level she is venerated points in that direction).

Most folks don't have a basic "trinitarian understanding".

[kosta50]

Blogger, mainstream Protestants (Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians) to the best of my knowledge do not deny Mary as the Mother of God. Other Protestants, offshoots from those original groups, do. There is no insult, nothing derogatory in saying "offshoots" of Protestantism. Protestants are continuously in a state of fragmentation. That is basic and elementary knowledge and fact.

[annalex]

You have Catholic offshoots who want to deify Mary literally. They petitioned the Pope to do just that.

Really? Can you substantiate?