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“It saddens me that you take eery opportunity to belittle her who was so honored by Him.”

Keep in mind, this is a leap you’ve made, most likely due to the weakness of your claim. I never belittled her at all. I simply pointed out that, if you claim she is holy because of her relationship with Christ, or holy because she received it from God but at the same time received it from herself, it is a contradiction. If it is all from God, as you seem to assert, then you do well, and I do not dislike it, since it follows that all whom God saves have the noticeable marks of righteousness that follows all Christians. Though I would still dispute if you are meaning to say that she is spotless of sin by God’s gift, since all men are sinners, even those who receive it from the Father to keep His word.

Rom_3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

“Our Lord’s remark about the “biological reductionism” of His Mother to womb and breasts, in no way reduces the honor she has as one who “heard the word of God and kept it.” She heard it so well it entered her, and she got pregnant with God.”

Certainly it reduces her from the Roman Catholic heights, which imagine her as “the guardian of our peace and the minister to us of heavenly grace, who is placed on the highest summit of power and glory in Heaven,” or that she stands in the throne room of judgment, and leaps in to save sinners from Christ’s judgment, based on the number of rosaries prayed.

I do not diminish the unique blessing of being the mother of the Lord. I simply reduce her from being your God, since it does not follow that she “gave birth to Jesus,” therefore “she saves us from Jesus Christ through her intercession.”