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That's because we know something that maybe you don't...Jesus is not in the church...Or the Church...Jesus is in the believer...
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That's a completely inaccurate statement...But regardless, the scriptures are the words of God...So who, believing that, would not want to spend as much time in the scriptures as possible??? How can you separate Jesus from the scriptures???

You are making my case. Catholics also believe Jesus in in the believer. Duh. Saints are believers. Mary is a believer. Jesus is in them. Jesus is who made them Holy. Our cult of saints exists because of what we think and believe of Jesus and what we praise him for.

The whole point of my post was that using the names of Churches as a metric of the direction of devotion is bogus. But I knew none of you would believe it if I made the case directly. (At least none of you has questioned the argument.)

So I made a parody of the argument and directed against non-Catholics. Immediately thee non-Catholics rose up to protest the argument.

So my case is made. I lifted my arms, but the Lord parted the sea.

v I'm Not buying it.

I Don't see the case made at all.

Labels are used because they mean something important to the labelers.

They mean something important to the labelers because other things are less important to the labelers.

That's just a PSYCHOLOGICAL and SOCIOLOGICAL fact.

Priorities are priorities. Weasel words do not cancel out priorities. Weasel words do not render priorities NON-priorities. PRIORITIES ARE PRIORITIES.

Sooner or later priorities reveal themselves in behavior as well as word choices, word tones, word frequencies etc.

That's just a linguistic, psychological and sociological fact.

People typically talk about double chocolate Hagen Daz MORE than they do vanilla BECAUSE THEY LIKE chocolate MORE than they do vanilla.

Priorities, preferences show up sooner or later in a diversity of ways.

Here we have very large group "A" scattered over a wide area. Let's just pretend for argument that the percentages are--40% of the churches are named after Mary or Joseph. Another 30% are named after other saints.

In the same County, let's pretend we have another large group "B"--and 20% of their churches are named some variation of:

The Church of the Holy Muffler

Another 20% are named some variation of

The Church of the Holy Turbor Chargers

And another 30% of the churches are named some variation on

The Church of the Holy Mag Wheels.

Are you trying to tell me that the church labels would have absolutely no correspondence with the differing priorities, values, preferences between group "A" vs group "B"???

I hope not. I'd consider that an ignorant perspective.