[Mad Dawg]

And people say Catholicism is complicated!

[aruanan]

And people say Catholicism is complicated!

No kidding. Protestants say that Catholics venerate images. In reality, though, the veneration of images in protestantism is the veneration of mental images, rationalist flights of fancy such as dispensationalism or calvinism in which someone tries to build a self-consistent structure to connect, coordinate, and explain all the theological details revealed in scripture. In the process they have to invoke the theological equivalent of dark matter to make things fit, wonder at how totally weird and contradictory certain conclusions appear, and then say, well, God's ways are past our understanding.