[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I don’t keep those as I’m stuck on my phone for now. I think caww keeps them. But they don’t play with them. They venerate and pray to them. But they first have to dig em up.

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They run around carrying them, bow down to them, cover them in gold and/or gemstones and kiss them.

Call it what you will but it's really quite grotesque.

[caww]

...”They run around carrying them, bow down to them, cover them in gold and/or gemstones and kiss them.......Call it what you will but it’s really quite grotesque.”.....

I think no matter what “evidence” is presented the response from catholics will remain set until the Lord removes their denial of the facts....

Romans 11:8 ...Just as it is written.. “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”.....And Matthew saying...”For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”

And further...2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 tells us...”And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.... ‘Therefore God sends them a strong delusion’, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had ‘pleasure’ in unrighteousness.”

[CynicalBear]

>>Call it what you will but it's really quite grotesque.<<

Not doubt. It's also totally of pagan origin. Bringing dead ancestors and past leaders out to "venerate" has deep roots in many pagan societies.

[vladimir998]

“Call it what you will but it’s really quite grotesque.”

God works through the “grotesque” (2 Kings 13:21) and even things some might find silly (Acts 19:12).