For the n-th time, no one worships the Blessed Virgin Mary!
Asking someone to pray for you is not worship. If you unironically believe asking someone to pray for you is worship, never ask any of us or anyone you know to pray for you ever again!
Why does she so easily trigger prots?
Carter Davis
John Nelson
Yes that's true. They worship their images that they drew.
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
- Isaiah 21:9
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
- Jeremiah 50:2
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
-Psalm 135:15-18
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
- Revelation 18:21
Samuel Lee
Oh sorry wrong post, you must have deleted it. I meant to reply to this one.
1 Kings 18:27-28
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Isaiah 65:2-3
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Jace Price
Scripture tells us to love mary as well, Wake up Prots.
Nathan Green
We like her because she is the mother of Christ. But Cathodox take it too far:
Luke 11:27-28
Tyler Allen
Isaiah is speaking of pagans, and generally speaking, it's nonsense to think this applies to the Apostolic Mass.
Nicholas Powell
There's no taking it too far, Mary is the Queen of Saints. Veneration of Mary is the explicit recognition that Jesus Christ is the Messiah; veneration of Mary is implicit in the worship of Jesus Christ.
This is why Protestants trip up over the hypostatic union and why people like Anderson keep churning out Arians.
Jayden Gutierrez
You do realize the apostle Luke painted a picture of Our Lady, proving that, going back to the time of the apostles, every Christian had a devotational view of her? Thomas carried this particular painting all the way to India.
How so? Think about the fact that Gabriel, an Archangel, who had spent thousands of years in Heaven, could not help but exclaim "Hail, full of grace" to a human. And that Elizabeth calls her the "mother of my Lord"–this is exactly we call her Mother of God. And I'll point out that the Hail Mary is structured exactly like the Our Father.
Kevin King
Protgressives despise beauty and all things good.
Daniel Lee
Because whenever I state that I only pray to God and not humans I get called a godless satanist by the board