What a wonderful mind and great language skills you have.
Actually, I didn’t get per se into inner heart motives and mind stuff.
TO ME
the words/phrases themselves IN SUCH A CONTEXT
are inherently blasphemous.
Honestly, MD, once I detached myself—fairly early on—from my mother’s biases and crazinesses in viewing folks of other faiths . . . I really gave RC’s a pretty clean slate in terms of my perspective on their religiosity.
I’ve seen plenty evidence of RC idolatry overseas.
But the most intense, fierce examples have been observed right here on FR, imho.
And I really do feel as strongly towards any hint of such in Pentecostal circles. It’s just far less frequent, less overt and less intense, imho.
But when I ask to be shown how they are inherently blasphemous, I get no answer.
It is so because you perceive it to be so? And you say WE are haughty?
I make an analogy to show how praising Mary with over-the-top titles is glorifying God for his work, and how begrudging such praise is like someone enviously condemning a person who sees and praises the beauty of the moon for forgetting the sun.
Do I get an argument? No. I get that somewhere in a galaxy far, far away there are examples of idolatry and a repetition that the words are per se idolatrous.
The questions are dodged, reason is despised, and the charge is repeated.
This Cor ad cor loquitur stuff is all very well as far as it goes. But when it comes to saying, "You're guilty because .. because, well because I just KNOW you are," well, it doesn't move the ball.
(Excuse me, I'm going for the prize for most mixed metaphors in one day.)