Mary Statue Rebuilt in Ancient Syrian Christian Town

Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/6/15

[Eleutheria5]

Don't worry, though, libtards. DAESH might move in and destroy this one, too, and maybe even behead all the survivors.

[Ann Archy]

We DON’T WORSHIP MARY....we VENERATE HER!! Only dumbasses don’t know the diff, like this writer.

[Lion Den Dan]

Thank you Ann. You beat me to the same words but I shall repeat them: We worship the Trinity, we venerate the Holy Virgin.

[Ann Archy]

And WOE to them that DISS Jesus’s MOTHER......Jesus LOVED His Mother.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Arutz Sheva probably isn’t the best source for info on Christian theology, but you have to admire the strength of these people’s faith.

[WVKayaker]

We DON’T WORSHIP MARY....we VENERATE HER!! Only dumbasses don’t know the diff, like this writer.

Hahahahahaaaaaaa! Roman Catholics cultists can be sooooooo funny! They like to play word games without proper knowledge or understanding of the words...

Venerate: to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power (a proper setting in which to venerate God)
Synonyms adore, deify, glorify, revere, reverence, venerate - http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venerate

[Ann Archy]

As a WEST VIRGINIAN, I accept your ignorance as a local flaw in knowledge of anything that is NOT Baptist.

[Mercat]

God entrusted his only Son to her.

[Ann Archy]

Amen...and ignorant people just can't understand the LOVE God and the Trinity as a whole has for Mary....who said "YES....Let it be done to me."

I would love to see these really ignorant hillbillies have THEIR moms DISSED, and see what THEY do......Katie Bar the Door!!

[knarf]

beat me to it

[knarf]

only fitting, she was His only daughter in law

[NormsRevenge]

Makes for quite a family reunion, what do you cook up for visits?

Visited her latter years home in Ephesus a few years back,, She was chosen by God..ended up living in a desolate place.. so peaceful.. except for all the tourists these days.

We are all a member of God’s tree,, some of us are a little fruitier than others.

[ealgeone]

Amazing how outsiders of the rcc know exactly what is going on with the mary worship by catholics.

[Campion]

Maalula is one of the world's oldest Christian settlements, and its inhabitants still speak Aramaic, a language spoken by Jews in Israel at the time Jesus was said to have lived.

Did you catch that?

Let's play it again:

Maalula is one of the world's oldest Christian settlements, and its inhabitants still speak Aramaic, a language spoken by Jews in Israel at the time Jesus was said to have lived.

Original Christianity, the Christianity planted by the Apostles themselves as related in the Book of Acts, venerates and loves Mary. Only the 16th century syncretism of Christianity, rationalism, and Platonism you have mistaken for the real thing disrespects her.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Worship-venerate, you are dealing with a VERY FINE LINE there that no Protestant would get near!

When Cortez set up a statue, of what they considered to be Mary, between the Aztec gods, and fell down before it, did the pagans know the difference between the Aztec worshiping of the stone gods of Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli, and the veneration of a statue of Mary by the Spaniards?

No, to them it looked the same.

[Fiji Hill]

Protestants do not worship Mary.

[Oratam]

English is rather limited in this regard. Worship is the Enghlish translation of the Latin ‘honor.’ Now ‘honour’ has been an English word for centuries and good ol’ worship got a promotion.

[ealgeone]

I would love to know how Mary feels about people kneeling down before her, praying to her, etc when the Word says all this worship should be directed towards Christ.

[Ann Archy]

What the HELL are you talking about???

[Oratam]

Throw Islam in there, too. I think they have much in common.