***Personally, I think the Mary worship is the worst because it has the greatest potential of leading folks well off the track and over the cliff.***
I think all of it is a symptom of the true problem: the lack of faith in salvation by faith alone in Christ alone.
The further you wander away from those Biblical truths the more likely you will develop a Gordian knot of heretical nonsense.
If God brings a man to faith by the free gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, all that man has to do is what Jesus instructs...
"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36
You would think that one sentence alone would cause RCs to flee the legalistic bureaucracy of Rome. Thank God, millions have.
QUITE SO. QUITE SO.