[BlueDragon]

I used the term "spiritual mother" and emphatically rejected the term "Spirit Mother."

That should be the end of it.

That should end it?

The boundary between Mary being a Goddess, perhaps not even lower case(?) goddess or semi- goddess, relies singularity upon usage of capitalization or not?

Oh, and the slight suffix composed of the letters "ual" caboose-d upon the word spirit.

Remove Mary from context of all those other offensive Spirit Mothers, place her more properly where Scripture would lead us to assume she would be (among the righteous, not among the earthly & sensual as I ALREADY readily agreed) and you would still demand she be referred to as spiritual mother even as at the same time she is upper case Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, Queen of us all --- but becomes shy and only small case spiritual mother instead of Titled Spirit Mother to go along with being Titled Queen of Heaven.

That simply must leave Mary to be spiritual mother merely conceptually speaking, poetically speaking, and not literally_ spiritually speaking, if I can use "literally spiritually" at the same instant, which I most certainly can, but at this juncture, in regard to this precise theological quandary, simply must.

So thank you for not be able to answer the question maybe?

Do you realize just how much of your own past efforts here on the religion forum have now gone up in flames?

[FourtySeven]

I wonder when this thread got off the original topic. The Eucharist. How did it get on Mary, (as all these Catholic/anti-Catholic threads seem to eventually, no matter the starting topic)

Did I have a hand in this sidetracking? I hope not. Anyway...

Speaking of the original topic: anyone ever spend some significant time (an hour or so) in front of the Blessed Sacrament? Not worshipping or adoring or anything just sitting there in quiet contemplation?

If it’s just a “cracker” nothing to loose by doing so, other than an hour of your life. If it’s not though, might just experience something special.

Just a random thought.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"The boundary between Mary being a Goddess, perhaps not even lower case(?) goddess or semi- goddess, relies singularity upon usage of capitalization or not?... Oh, and the slight suffix composed of the letters "ual" caboose-d upon the word spirit. "

There is a very good reason to make a distinction between "spiritual mother" and "Spirit Mother." And that is because they mean different things.

It was neither fair nor intellectually respectable for you to omit the substantive reason why I reject this entity called "Spirit Mother." I'll quote myself at #950:

I googled "Spirit Mother" and, as I suspected, the top hits by far were all about goddesses, shamans, embodied forces of nature, dream-totems, Shakti, Mormonism, pre-existence of souls, reincarnation, sexual consorts of gods, etc. This is repellent to me, and does not at all convey the Christian meaning.

Do words really mean the same thing if they are spelled nearly the same or touch on superficially similar themes? Does God = dog ("same letters")? Does First Lady = Eve? ("Eve was the First Lady, therefore Adam must have been President, hah!")? Does moral = amoral ("there's only one letter difference")?

As I said, it is not fair to refuse to make distinctions between distinctly different things, or to omit the explanation which was crucial to showing the difference.

I had thought better of you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"So thank you for not be able to answer the question maybe?"

"For not being able to answer the question maybe?" What? What question?

[af_vet_1981]

That should end it?

Yes, but you did accept her answer but gainsaid her simple reply, with what is, it seems to me, an uninspired series of questions.