NOT my logic.
I do not construe it that BECAUSE there are other such personages, the caricatured Mary personage is not kosher etc.
No. That’s not it.
Not sure I can wrap my fingers around this briefly and coherently . . . but here goes . . .
1. The parallels between the pagan manifestations and the excesses in the name of the caricatured Mary are plentiful beyond disturbing, to put it politely.
2. The gross lack of Biblical support for such coupled with a great amount of serious proscription against such in Scripture is far more than disturbing.
3. The competition for attention, time, energy, resources, focus with God Almighty, Jesus The Christ, Holy Spirit—whether folks within the box can see it, or not, is abjectly horrendously awful.
I’ll stop there.
Even if you didn’t consider your first point, the similarities to pagan religions, which I was not really aware of, so much of the teaching about Mary can be shown to be erroneous with Scripture, right out of the gospels.
The other issue IS the competition in time that God gets from Mary.
Every minute you give attention to her is one minute you are robbing God of.
Considering that we only have so much time in one day, why would you want to spend your time of devotion and prayer on another human being instead of God Himself. Why do that on someone who can’t do anything for you anyway, in direct disobedience to Christ’s command to pray to the Father, in the Lord’s prayer.
It would be nice, though to see a kind of clarification along the lines of, "The existence of other 'Queen of Heaven' ideas does not in itself prove that the Catholics are wrong about Mary.But IF they're wrong, they're REAL wrong! And We think they're wrong because of THESE reasons over here."
BTW: If logic can be owned by any created person, it ain't logic, IMHO.
Yeah. What you said.
Good post!