[stfassisi]

""Mary can’t protect anyone, dear Betty. That’s not her job.""

Assuming you're a mother and you protected your child,I find it odd that you can't see Mary as a protector when you know full well that she protected Baby Jesus as His mother

Listen to this with your heart From GK Chesterton.....

When I was a boy a more Puritan generation objected to a statue upon my parish church representing the Virgin and Child. After much controversy, they compromised by taking away the Child. One would think that this was even more corrupted with Mariolatry, unless the mother was counted less dangerous when deprived of a sort of weapon. But the practical difficulty is also a parable. You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him without thinking of his mother. You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother, you cannot in common human life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows I as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.-GK Chesterton

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[Marysecretary]

Of course she protected her own child as his physical mother as much as humanly possible, but we all know it’s not possible to protect them every moment of their lives. She is not omniscient or omnipresent. I stand by my words.

[Quix]

That involves an OUTRAGEOUS

PRESUMPTION

THAT GOD ALMIGHTY

ASSIGNED Mary such a role.

When there’s not a faint hint in all of Scripture that such has been the case.

[Outership]

It is so easy to fall into the idolatry of women. Be it for their beauty, femininity, fertility, mothering aspect, or marital relations aspect. Most religions have had goddesses as their primary focus of worship.

This may stem from a rejection of men or masculinity or jealousy over their apparent authority/favoritism from God. Or perhaps it stems from anger at Christ for coming as a man and not a woman. Or perhaps from anger at God for referring to Himself in the masculine. Or perhaps from anger at God for making man first. Or perhaps from anger at God for making woman as a helpmeet to man. Or perhaps from anger at God for the curse women are currently under due to their part in the Fall. Or perhaps from simple loneliness or rejection or anger at God for loneliness or rejection.

Satan uses these kinds of feelings to assist him in twisting the Truth into what a particular person would rather see as true.

It is far wiser to approach God and ask Him how He feels about women and their place in His Heart. Women do not need to be elevated to goddesses in order to be loved by God. And the manner of woman’s creation and purpose does not require a raise to goddesshood to be acceptable to the woman herself. And, as great as some feel women are, always remember that God created women and He can create stuff *even better* than that. So it is wise to put the Creator of women even higher than you place woman.

Idolatry has to be the hardest trap to get out of. That is probably why God hates it so much. You have to keep reminding yourself that no matter how much you like something, it is NOTHING compared to God. There should never be a question in anyone’s mind that you are putting some created thing before the Creator. The things that He can create have not even been imagined yet by us.