Oh no, Catholics certainly DO deify Mary and pray to her. Don’t even pretend they don’t.”
Are you knowingly lying about what Catholics do? I am a Catholic and would never think to deify Mary. You do know the difference between prayer and worship don’t you? I certainly hope so if you have any education at all.
You do know that lying is a sin, don’t you? You do know that you will answer to God at your judgment, don’t you?
He might be just a bit ticked at you lying about the church that He founded.
With all due respect to you, my friend, I know whom I adore as God and I know whom I do not. I give ultimate worship to God, and God alone.
If you say that isn't so, the only options seem to be that you either think I'm lying about my religious beliefs, -OR- you think I could accidentally worship somebody without knowing it.
If the former, you'd be saying I'm liar and that would end the conversation, since I don't converse with people who morally slander me .
If the latter, you'd be saying it's possible to for a person to inadvertently perform the most exalted conscious interior act a person can do, which doesn't make sense: you can't perform an act of the will, unwillfully.
Therefore it might help if you would specify how you think I could have carelessly worshipped somebody without knowing it--- if that's what you think I'm doing.
Thank you.