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To: Sir_Ed

Now you’re just being either silly or absurd.


74 posted on 06/17/2009 2:38:17 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

I’m just pointing out the absurdity of praying to someone who is both dead, and who is NOT God!

Mary was indeed blessed, but she’s just like other noble women in the Bible...a sinner, in need of salvation, and not the one to whom we must pray, as her Son pointed out!

And if she WASN’T a sinner, if God made her sinless to carry Jesus, then did HER mother also need to be born sinless, since she carried the “sinless” Mary?? And if Elizabeth was born sinless to carry her sinless daughter, should we also pray to HER, too?? It seems from reading Jesus’ prayer that He wants us to pray to GOD, His Father, not to some human who’s up in Heaven.

It’s just all so bizarre...so much of Catholicism is Godly, but they have these weird sticking points, like worshiping bread instead of God, believing that Mary should be prayed for, believing that Mary never sinned and believing that Mary never died, but was instead carried straight to Heaven like Elijah.

Ed


77 posted on 06/17/2009 2:49:39 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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