[chuckles]

I don’t know anybody that prays TO a TV evengelist. I know plenty that go to their knees in front of statues and invoke help from dead people instead of God.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

So when thousands and thousands of people flock to a church because of the ‘personalities’ representing Jesus... that’s okay.

But if people use a statue to remind them of Jesus when they pray... that’s not okay?

I think you are confused. Catholics are not praying TO the statue. I’m sure it looks like it to a cynic, but that’s not what they are doing.

Not that it matters, but I’m not Catholic.

[B-Chan]

Are Moses and Elijah dead? Peter and the gang didn't seem to think so when they bowed down before them during the Transfiguration of the Lord. The apostles even offered to build shrines to these "dead" people! Now, if you believe that our Lord hangs around with dead people's ghosts, that's your business, but I'll stick with the traditional Christian belief that Christ is the lord of the living, not the dead, and that the saints are very much alive with Him in Heaven.

[al_c]

don’t know anybody that prays TO a TV evengelist.

And I don't know anybody that prays TO a relic.