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Protestants are jews who believe Christianity is just pledging allegiance to some tribal hebrew deity who is in competition with other beings
Catholics understand that God is the one, eternal, uncreated creator who is the beginning and end of all things. We don't have problems praying to Mary or other saints because we know that any prayers to her and others have their end in God anyway, we believe these people are special because of what God did through them and not because they are some "alternative" to God. God wants us to pray to Mary and the saints. That's why He's always having Mary appear to us.
>but what about muh idolatry
God is the source of all and the end of all, He is not in competition with Mary, nor does worship for Him get taken away like some kind of pie. When Catholics honor Mary and other saints, we are still honoring God through them, like how you give honor to an artist when you praise their individual pieces of art. And in the Bible when Paul talks about the Church being of one mind and accord, being one body, and having a cloud of witnesses, this includes the saints who can hear our prayers. If the church is one body, with Christ as head, then it would be a division and mutilation of the body of Christ for one section to be cut off from another. There isn't a "living church" on earth and a "dead church" in heaven. There is only the church.
There is no idolatry here because honoring of saints is still honoring of God. Protestants subconsciously think of God as, like I said, some national hebrew god in competition with other beings, instead of the source and end of all creation. Which ironically makes protestants more pagan in their thinking than Catholics. They're subconscious henotheists.
Protestants are jews who believe Christianity is just pledging allegiance to some tribal hebrew deity who is in competition with other beings
Catholics understand that God is the one, eternal, uncreated creator who is the beginning and end of all things. We don't have problems praying to Mary or other saints because we know that any prayers to her and others have their end in God anyway, we believe these people are special because of what God did through them and not because they are some "alternative" to God. God wants us to pray to Mary and the saints. That's why He's always having Mary appear to us.
>but what about muh idolatry
God is the source of all and the end of all, He is not in competition with Mary, nor does worship for Him get taken away like some kind of pie. When Catholics honor Mary and other saints, we are still honoring God through them, like how you give honor to an artist when you praise their individual pieces of art. And in the Bible when Paul talks about the Church being of one mind and accord, being one body, and having a cloud of witnesses, this includes the saints who can hear our prayers. If the church is one body, with Christ as head, then it would be a division and mutilation of the body of Christ for one section to be cut off from another. There isn't a "living church" on earth and a "dead church" in heaven. There is only the church.
There is no idolatry here because honoring of saints is still honoring of God. Protestants subconsciously think of God as, like I said, some national hebrew god in competition with other beings, instead of the source and end of all creation. Which ironically makes protestants more pagan in their thinking than Catholics. They're subconscious henotheists.
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