I think that's the kind of charge that needs either to be explained and justified or retracted.
It’s amazing. He’s able to go back in time to the 5th century and read the minds of the Council fathers at Ephesus.
What a gift!
/sarc
The Vatican has had a long time to ponder the issues that Proddys raise about
“MOTHER OF GOD.”
At this point, there can be no doubt that the Vatican is hanging onto it for it’s own reasons.
We could go down the list of those plausible reasons.
I’m not eager to today as it’s just not attractive to me to bother. But it’s doable.
Certainly UTMOST CLARITY AND UTMOST BIBLICAL ACCURACY
is not in the top 10 most plausible reasons . . . or even the top 100 . . .
As Alamo-Girl wisely puts . . . requires footnotes . . . yet the Vatican refuses to provide footnotes.
Another indication that the Vatican is quite willful about using
MOTHER OF GOD
for at best, questionable reasons.
Socio-linguistics would say quite firmly that
MOTHER OF GOD
is grossly misleading to the majority of the earth’s population.
The Vatican cannot be ignorant of that.
The Vatican deliberately prefers to mangle that sociolinguistic reality for the majority of the world’s population
FOR A REASON.
BEHAVIOR DOES NOT OCCUR WITHOUT A REASON.
I say the reason is lacking in integrity, lacking in truth, manipulative, ghastly, . . . and worse.