... Really? Usually it takes several years for someone to study the extant writings of the early Church Fathers. If you were making an unfounded assertion (I never do =), well ... it’s never too late to see what they really said at: http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html
Nice attempt at cutting and pasting to distort what I actually said...something I've notice catholics are very, very good at doing....but for the record, this is the lead in statement for context.
>We have no writings accepted by the early church and declared as canon that show Mary is someone we are to pray to or rely upon for our salvation or that she was immaculately conceived or remained a virgin. None. All were rejected.<
Why?
Because the early church rejected these as they knew they were not true.
I think this distortion started sometime before the second council of Nicea, but it did not reach official ‘Mary as goddess’ until the mid-1990’s.