—Founded after 300 vs 300 year earlier
—A list of untrue UNBiblical mythology about Mary
—Bureaucratic power-mongering at its worst declaring all manner of Rubber Bible and Rubber history stuff
—Bureaucratic arrogant power-mongering gone to seed and to tyranny repeatedly over the centuries
What would snooker anyone into thinking that such an organization had the least bit of interest in THE TRUTH?
Because that organization gives men cover to believe they can earn their way to heaven and men love to believe they are in control. What is more pleasing to our fallen human nature than to consider ourselves as pious? That pain in the bended knees to statues of Mary feels so good.
But Scripture tells us all the righteousness of men is as filthy rags to God. The only righteousness that saves anyone is the righteousness of Jesus Christ, mercifully and freely imputed to God's family, according to the will and purpose of the Triune God.
"For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?" -- John Calvin, INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
Thank God.