Why do Catholics worship Mary? Even if you call it "veneration", the amount of it that Catholics do to Mary is bizarre. "But she's the mother of god!" Ok, what did she do that was different from any other mother? Was her womb velvet-carpeted, with a baththub and a a luxury suite? What did Mary even do in her life that warrants her "veneration"? She was just a random woman that Yahweh/Jesus/Holy Ghost chose to bare Jesus, there is nothing special about her.It was this tweet that made me make this thread:https://x.com/pandilici0us/status/2036965096979607991?s=61A Spanish kid is singing to a statue of a woman he's never met before, who historians aren't even sure existed at all(no evidence of her existence outside the bible), yet he's singing to a statue of her as if he wad about to be moved to tears. Someone ignorant of Christianity would be forgiven for thinking she was the main godess of Catholicism.
>>18704009Goddess worship is inherent to all humans. The Catholic Church knew this deep down hence why they swapped Isis with Mary to avoid revolts from the masses who wish to venerate the feminine. You’re essentially asking>Why do people with a desire to worship goddesses worship a woman
Ishtar worship
>>18704009Why are people of great historical importance on money? Why do we salute national flags?Mary was/is the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was also venerated. A typological reading of scripture will enlighten you to this point. If you don't see a difference between veneration and worship or a "distinction without a difference" then you may as well agree with the Moslims when they claim that the Trinity is polytheism and all attempts to explain it are a "distinction without a difference".
>>18704098>Mary was/is the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was also venerated.What does venerating Mary accomplish? A Catholic anon said that they pray for the intercesion of Mary, does that mean that Jesus would have been less likely to answer your prayer if Mary hadn't interceded to answer your prayer?
>>18704009>"But she's the mother of god!" Ok, what did she do that was different from any other mother?Mother our God.>What did Mary even do in her life that warrants her "veneration"?Mother our God. >just a random womanSource?
>>18704009>Even if you call it "veneration", the amount of it that Catholics do to Mary is bizarreAltarless Protestants don't worship God, they merely venerate Him, so when they see veneration they think of worship. Your errors come from the fact that you do not view God highly enough.
>>18704009>who historians aren't even sure existed at all(no evidence of her existence outside the bible)Are you implying that Jesus did not have a mother? That he just sprang up from the ground?
>>18704260I'm implying his mother didn't gove birth to him as a virgin, Jesus had a Human biological father, who may or not have been Mary's husband, maybe Mary cheated and made up the son of god excuse to cover her infidelity, interestingly, emperor Augustus called himself the son of Sol Invictus nearly 20 years before Jesus' birth.
>>18704009I was going to respond according to your questions, but then I saw the social media post and I realize this could turn into a social media reactionary post / social media outrage hype which I don’t post in anymore.I’ll just say that the Bible says to have a holy love between all Christian’s and Jesus Christ himself prayed for the unification of all Christians. So if you are a Christian, you are forced to obey his commandments that Jesus Christ is the head of the church and the bride. He is the bridegroom and so if you followed or corrupted your womb as the Christian bride, the church, by following another Savior, then you have to ask yourself how you are even still a Christian anymore. You might have gotten saved but your church is still following someone else. Instead of the Word of God. A wife is defined by being in utter submission to her husband and that means the church doesn’t control the Word of her husband. If she is controlling it then her womb is impure and she is not giving him a true son. She is giving him herself or someone other man. That’s just evidence of her betrayal. A woman is good to her husband alll the years of his life. That means no matter if he is extremely obese, ugly, bald, handicapped physically or mentally. And you’ll usually find the liberals dyeing their hair and going insane and screaming in the streets on camera at this very basic truth. For the husbands it is just as hard knowing your soul mate has to submit to you entirely but she is still free to consent whenever she wants. Even if her timing with God is Now for you to marry you and fall in love with you, if she isn’t obeying then it is still your duty to be patient with her and be loyal to her no matter what. Carnal people cannot understand this even from an irreligious perspective. Catholics are basically a liberal religious whore like a nun that is a demon that wants to convert you to their brand of Mary. All we can do is love them no mater what.
>>18704267Entire basis of Christianity is Jesus is son of god, you can't do that with a human bio father, so you are rejecting the entire premise, lol.
>>18704273(nta) Jesus' Y chromosome had to come from somewhere, whether it was manufactured on the spot or borrowed from someone like Joseph, unless you think God the Father is and always has been a Jewish man floating in outer space as well.
>>18704284It has to be a clue that at least one (both, by a plain reading) of the genealogies given at the beginning of Matthew and Luke belongs to Joseph.
Also, I believe Jesus was the son of God even before he became human according to most Christians. So the virgin birth really isn't that esssential.
>>18704267Heb 7:3 >Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.