I have no desire to bring the authentic Mary down a peg at all.
I do have a desire that folks calling themselves Christian would avoid a lot of the hoopla, caricature, hogwash that centuries of fantasies have built up around Mary and her images.
My interest is in the truth.
Mary cannot be taken down a peg anyway. She has whatever station God has allotted to her. And I assure you, it is NOT the Queen of Heaven as construed by the RC edifice. I’ve never ever heard a hint of such from the many heavenly visitations I’ve read.
And, there’s NO Scriptural support for the RC perspective and a good deal of clear straightforward as well as a lot of inferrential Scirptural support for the Protty perspective on it.
I’ll take Protty desires to insure authentic truth about Mary over RC edifice compulsions to make fantasies dogma plastered willy nilly onto Scripture
most any day.
I’ll say it again: IF the RCC doesn’t encourage idolatry, WHY spend so much energy developing and defending extra-Biblical doctrines? Is Jesus not enough? Claiming Christ inhabits the cracker and wine as it’s stored in the “temple” (by whatever name it’s rightfully called), claiming Mary never sinned and was taken to heaven without tasting death - why? Christ and Him crucified - it’s enough! Paid in full! Raised from the dead, rubbing Satan’s nose in His victory over death, reigning with the Father at His right hand, making intercession on behalf of His chosen ones, all for His glory.
WHY IS CHRIST NOT ENOUGH?
There is no one else needed for salvation, forgiveness, or resurrection from the grave. For me - Jesus is enough. I need no other creed, no other priest, no other defender. He is more than enough. None other can compare.