Baloney, I read the article in which the Pope was quoted as saying that Mary stopped the bullet. Its your position that he holds to that postition. If that's what he meant he should have said it.
sorry. Let me re-state that. The only people who remember Diana are fundamentalists with axes to grind. This is of the line of thought that any depiction that resembles anythign pagan is by definition pagan. It's an asinine theory. There were pagan gods who died and were resurrected. That must make Jesus a pagan god as well, by that theory.
No axes to grind here. Diana and Mary perpetual virgins. Mother of God announcement in Ephesus. Facts. Another fact, Jesus actually did rise from the dead, pagan gods didn't.
You must learn to answer the argument given. That being that insisting that anything that remotely is related to paganism is to be discarded as tainted leaves you without a Savior.
You must learn not to put words in my mouth. I have never said that anything remotely related to paganism is to be discarded. Those are your words. I've always pointed out specifically regarding paganism what's to be disgarded.
Your agrument is, in reality, that since you don't believe in Mary, that you will throw pagan mud at her. But you would howl at an athiest who did the same trick with your allegedly "resurrected" god.
Why would I throw mud at the woman that's to be called blessed. You are the one throwing mud at her by making up lies about her.
How long have you worshipped Mithra under an assumed name?
Constantine's god, not mine.
Yeah right, these people actually went to the Vatican. There is no evidence given as to what they are talking about, no context given, nothing. Did they allegedly see a statue of Mary and assume it was Diana? Did they stumble upon a museum of antiquities? Was there any context to the display -- here is a false god that Christianity replaced?
I'll take their word for what they say. I'm the kind of person who gives people the benefit of the doubt. If they said they saw a statue of Diana, I believe them until its proven there is no statue there.
Yes, but so what? If there is such a statue there, why is it there, what context is it in and what does it mean?
These charlatans you insist on treating as serious offer nothing.
No axes to grind here. Diana and Mary perpetual virgins. Mother of God announcement in Ephesus. Facts. Another fact, Jesus actually did rise from the dead, pagan gods didn't.
Um, Diana didn't exist at all. You wish to find some type of conspiracy by the choice of cities for a counsel. This is hysterical. Why would anyone not pre-disposed to hate Mary believe any of this nonsense. It is prejudice disguised, thinly disgused, as evidence.
And you miss the point entirely about Jesus being compared to pagan gods.
You must learn not to put words in my mouth. I have never said that anything remotely related to paganism is to be discarded. Those are your words. I've always pointed out specifically regarding paganism what's to be disgarded.
Yeah right. Those "specific" things are always coincidental facts about Mary. I'm sure this is just by accident and not a consequence of you wanting to hate her.
SD