[Salvation]

Yes, God gave creation to all, including Catholics.

No, Catholics do not bow down to idols. Do you honor your mother and father? Do you bow down to them? We honor the people the statues represent.

Yes, the story of the birth of Jesus is true. But yes, Jesus was there from the beginning in Genesis, too. A great mystery — isn’t it.

BTW, where do you get your strange Catholic ideas?

[Alex Murphy]

BTW, where do you get your strange Catholic ideas?

That's a good question. Where did you get yours?

[metmom]

No, Catholics do not bow down to idols. Do you honor your mother and father? Do you bow down to them? We honor the people the statues represent.

Honoring is one thing. Respect is one thing.

Bowing down to statues, praying to them and burning incense to them is another thing entirely.

Unless someone has been brainwashed into believing that they are the same thing.

Exodus 20:4-6 “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. 5 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, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Pope breaking this commandment....