[Quix]

Sorry.

However, the qualifications don’t wash.

FOLKS PERSISTENTLY HEAR

ONLY

THE PHRASE

MOTHER OF GOD.

THAT IS THE PHRASE. THAT IS THE MESSAGE.

THAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS EMBELISHED UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER.

There is not immediately following qualification about it NOT AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM INCLUDING THE FATHER.

It is just starkly that

MOTHER OF GOD.

NOPE. Doesn’t wash with this psychologist.

WORDS ARE IMPORTANT.

THE IMPRESSIONS AND MEMES AND HYPNOTIC EFFECTS OF WORDS

ARE IMPORTANT—ALL THE MORE SO RELIGIOUS WORDS AND PHRASES WITH ALL MANNER OF INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUTRAMENTS ATTACHED.

NOPE. DOESN’T WASH BY A TRILLION MILES.

And those words are a deception, falsehood that the Vatican uses to squeak by on an extremely thin technicality.

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AT the risk of offending my dear Friend and Sister . . . let me try an analogy that I think MAY highlight the problem.

Let’s take the family unit of Alamo-Girl.

Alamo-Girl has a dog.

That dog has a mother.

By some stretch, one might refer to the mother of that dog as Alamo-Girl’s Mother. After all, that dog’s mother is the mother of Alamo-Girl’s currently only in-home ‘child.’

Of course, in this case, it’s brazenly and plainly absurd.

And to many Proddys the other VERY DECEPTIVE phrase is just as brazenly absurd and inappropriate.

[Deo volente]

If she’s not the Mother of God, then who is Jesus?

[Deo volente]

THE IMPRESSIONS AND MEMES AND HYPNOTIC EFFECTS OF WORDS

Like the Trinity, for example? Meme or just hypnotic word?

That dog has a mother...

I think you've reached a new low, if that's possible. How could you attempt such a ridiculous and absurd comparison?! I'm not even going to copy and paste the relevant sentences, they're that bizarre!

The dog's mother is a dog. The dog itself is not a human child. I think a 2-year old would know that.

The Incarnate Son of God's Mother is Mary. Trying to twist some story about a dog into a mangled syllogism about Mary is just so absurd, it's beyond laughable.

[Alamo-Girl]

Alamo-Girl has a dog.
That dog has a mother.
By some stretch, one might refer to the mother of that dog as Alamo-Girl’s Mother. After all, that dog’s mother is the mother of Alamo-Girl’s currently only in-home ‘child.’

LOLOL! I do have a dog. And he has a birth mother. I am his adoptive mother.

If he were human, he'd probably call me "mother" and when he was old enough to understand, I would explain the difference.

I'm confident Jesus called Mary "mother." And I can't think of any Christian who would object to Mary being called "Jesus' mother" or "Mother of the Incarnate Word."

But the title "Mother of God" requires a footnote and therefore can cause problems.

I prefer clarity.

Thank you for sharing your insights and pinging me to this sidebar, dear brother in Christ!