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Emptiness just sucks in more emptiness.

As a Latina she can't remove the statue. This means then that just being Latino/Latina is equivalent to being loyal to the Roman Catholic system, does it not? That would be the impression.

In business after business in the Philippines you can see, hanging on the walls, god shelves, where BOTH Roman Catholic idols and Buddhist idols are placed together, and incense is burning there. It is always strange to me that no Roman Catholic priest ever tries to tell these people that you cannot mix Christ with idolatrous religions. Oops! I forgot. Roman Catholicism itself is idolatrous. They bow to idols and kiss cement or ceramic, or plastic statues.

>>>>>>In business after business in the Philippines you can see, hanging on the walls, god shelves, where BOTH Roman Catholic idols and Buddhist idols are placed together, and incense is burning there.

This is probably because the business is owned by an ethnic Chinese, who own many businesses in the Philippines but who, unlike the Filipinos, generally aren't Catholic.

>>>>>>>Oops! I forgot. Roman Catholicism itself is idolatrous.

Roman Catholicism is the world's largest Christian denomination, and Roman Catholics have spread the Faith to all corners of the earth. The claim that Roman Catholicism is "idolatrous" is moronic.

As a Latina she can't remove the statue.

Dove dice quello nella bibbia?

Of course, I don't have to translate that for you, because you can speak in tongues! If you can't, then you may want to see a doctor, as you may have suffered some brain damage when you were "dunked". That would be bad, would it not? You might be "left behind" because of something like that! Thankfully, if you keep reading the King James Bible alone (written by Shakespeare-actor/playwright-reliable?), you will be saved. Are you even literate enough to read something so complex?

Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you reformed Baptist Church of God? Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915? Or did you simply break away and make up your own?

Bwahahaha, this is too easy!

"As a Latina she can't remove the statue. This means then that just being Latino/Latina is equivalent to being loyal to the Roman Catholic system, does it not? That would be the impression."

This is a family and a cultural matter, not a matter of Catholic teaching. No Catholic - Latino or otherwise - is required to have a statue of Mary, or to seek the intercession of Mary. The Catholic veneration of the saints - including Mary - is not essentially different from the Protestant practice of intercessary prayer. If one Protestant asks another Protestant to pray for - say - his sick wife - it is basically the same thing that Catholics are doing when they pray to Mary or one of the other saints.

"In business after business in the Philippines you can see, hanging on the walls, god shelves, where BOTH Roman Catholic idols and Buddhist idols are placed together, and incense is burning there."

Let me make one large point, and one larger point.

The large point: no Christians ---and this includes Catholics, Orthoidox, and Protestants--- use representational art (photographs, paintings, statues, mosaics, etc.) as idols. We use them as memorials to show remembrance, respect, honor, love.

If a young woman in love kisses the photograph of her fiance, it shows the impetuousness of her feelings and the ongoing nature of her commitment.
If a mother of a slain soldier displays her dead son's medal on the mantel with a candle or a flower arrangement next to it, she is showing solemn respect.
If a patriot places his hand over his heart and addresses a symbol of his country ("I pledge allegiance to the flag...") he is showing loyalty and honor.
Neither this, nor any other handling of a symbolic object by a Christian, is idolatrous.
Now here's the larger point. The Catholic faith forbids the worship of idols, or of any creature, or of any putative "god" except for the True God, the Most Blessed Trinity. Do some confused Catholics tolerate the syncretistic worship of Buddha, Shiva or whatever? You could probably find some --- and not only in the Philippines.
But a well-instructed Catholic would not do such a thing, any more than a well-instructed Baptist would. I wish all Baptists and all Catholics were better Christians. If you wish the same, then we're in fundmental agreement.