Words are one thing. Action is another.
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Interesting.
Kind of like words that
sound like worship
waddle like worship
quack like worship
fly like worship
tail waggle like worship
lay eggs like worship;
swim like worship
bob like worship
accompanied with a host of such behaviors that
BEHAVE like worship.
Yet we are supposed to be . . . since we’re Prottys after all . . .
we are supposed to gullible enough to think that 0.000000% worship is involved in every last individual case of over a billion very human souls.
I’m not that stupid.
Let’s review the “worship” thing again:
We’ve established that Protestants, especially Anglo-Saxon Protestants, have a low threshold of discomfort with physical expressions of respect, reverence OR worship.
Now, are there poorly catechised Catholics out there, especially thwarted women of a certain age, who prefer to direct their prayers to Mary, and conflate hyperdulia with latria? Sadly, it is documented, especially in the actions the Church occasionally is forced to take against the self-indulgent feminist Holy Sophia/Creator-Redeemer-Sanctifier types. Additionally, we have always seen the superstitious abuses of ignorance against which the Church has long taught, with historically varying degrees of success.
But, at the end of the day, abuse of hyperdulia does not invalidate proper use. The development of doctrine of the history of the Church has shown the importance of teachings about the unique relationship of the Blessed Virgin to her Son as a bulwark against all manner of anti-incarnational heresies from the time of Arius and Nestor to the modernists of the present day.