[HarleyD]

VENERATE - Synonyms: adore, deify, glorify, revere, reverence, worship

Oh please....we've been over this. Let me answer for the Catholics.

Venerate is not really worshipping. It's sort of like, er, paying a great, great, great, great, great deal of superdiduper respect for someone and is one level down from worshiping but shouldn't be construde with the same type of worship that we give God but is very similar and they are worthy of our adoration.

There. I hope that helps.

[Rashputin]

"Venerate is not really worshipping. It's sort of like, er, paying a great, great, great, great, ... "

You could also just refer to the language used when it was defined and what the definition of the word at that time rather than the English definition that was changed sometime between the mid 1500s and the 1600s to include worship. It did not change in other languages until much later if at all.

"to venerate derives from the Latin verb, venerari, meaning to regard with reverence and respect."

[metmom]

Still waiting for some Catholic to explain away why the Catholic church endorses breaking the first (or second depending) commandment and makes idols and lets its adherents bow down to them and serve them.

Exo 20:4-5 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,