Anyone and everyone who gives into human idolatrous impulses, choices, behaviors . . .
is
to those degrees and in those ways . . . in a kind of league with the devil against their own soul.
That much is clear in Scripture.
It doesn’t GREATLY matter, in most cases, whether the idol is the chocolate cake, Aunt Hildegard, little Johnny, the job, the little red sports car, one’s intellect, one’s primary reference group, one’s philosophy of life, one’s visage in the mirror . . . or the fantasied image of EARTH MOTHER MARY.
HAVE NO other gods before Me.
Do NOT bow down . . .
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. . . .
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Seems pretty clear!
Wait, there must be a verse in the New Testament that states, 'unless you are worshiping, excuse me, 'adoring' a saint or Mary'