Posted on 06/13/2015 3:56:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
no profanity, no personal attacks, no racism or violence in posts
LOL!! Keep showing your ignorance and hatred....keep it up....thanks.
THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO by Bernal Diaz De Castillo describes how Cortez set up a small statue of what he considered to be Mary between the stone Idols of the Aztecs. Then they knelt before it.
If I took a statue of Rosie O’Donnell or Barbie, placed a scarf over her, and declared...”THIS IS MARY, the mother of GOD!”
SOME PEOPLE would fall down and venerate it.
Any wonder why the first Portuguese explorers who circumnavigated Africa went into a Hindu Temple and fell down before a statue (probably Shashthi) of a female deity with a small child and gave tanks to Mary for their success, in a HINDU TEMPLE!
Mary does deserve respect, but let’s not get carried away!
I don’t know for sure about anyone else but when I venerate Mary the operational definition is to deeply honor, respect and revere a holy being who is above human (body and soul) but below deity. The highest of the Saints (I think).
About half the online definitions of venerate seem to include a God reference and half don’t. But that is irrelevant — words only approximate perfect description (ask Plato). Perhaps some other nuance of semantics would better describe what a Catholic actually does when he prays to Jesus’ mother. For me it’s the sentence above.
One big step for Mary haters......Mary deserves Respect!!! We’ll take it!!! YEAH!!
We call it a mission field, FRiend! It is ripe for the Gospel, and thousands are leaving that dead Roman Catholic cult daily! Most of the Roman Catholicism is culturally diminished by the widespread accommodation to extensive pagan influences.
When you have some substance to retort, please feel free to let us know. So far, all we see is someone acting as a child throwing a tantrum!
ahhh....but I’m not a Mary Hater.....God must LOVE you for HATING the woman HE picked from ETERNITY to be the MOTHER of HIS ONLY SON!!! BE PROUD OF YOUR HATRED, girlie!!! PROCLAIM IT THOUGHOUT THE PHILLIPINES!!!! God help you.
Do you have ANY idea of who wrote the GOSPELS????? and who put the Bible together??? CATHOLICS!!!! LEarn it...love it ....live it.
Amen.
is profanity allowed?? on my little reply box it says:no profanity, no personal attacks, no racism or violence in posts
I've never been a moderator here, but when I posted, I was thinking primarily of the ping to the Religion Moderator, who doesn't "patrol" the other forums.
In terms of those rules, I'm primarily thinking of "liar." The Religion Forum rules will probably consider such an accusation a form of "making it personal," but I've never heard of that rule applying specifically to the News Forum as well. The use of "liar" here may qualify as a "personal attack" in what you quoted, but there's a somewhat different set of rules in the News Forum, and I wouldn't pretend to know how the rule applies in this case.
I won't ask you to repeat what you consider profanity if you'd prefer not to quote it. I looked at the chain of reply posts, though, and didn't see what I'd consider profanity. (I did see a possible example elsewhere in this thread.)
I am just poking so we can see some demonstrate the lack of cogent thoughts! A Roman Catholic cult member in good standing apparently only has emotion as their tool. They don't demonstrate any sane response... only knee-jerk commitment to their indoctrination.
Satan approves!
Romans 1: 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Enough with the personal attacks!
Start with don’t call other members liars.
What the hell is that a picture of???? and don’t LIE about it!!
Screaming with caps must make you feel good, and calling names must make you feel like a good Christian.
Oh, I forgot. You are a FRoman Catholic. You don't know what Scripture says about most things. Paul sums up that attitude quite well!
Romans 1:28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; ...
Oh, love ya, WVKayacker! Your own example gave a hint of the semantic range. Here's a few more from Thesaurus.com:
Venerate. Revere, honor, observe, respect, cherish, esteem, exalt, admire, appreciate, love, regard, treasure, value, look up to, think highly of.
These local Dutch communities still venerate (respect) the WWII-era U.S. soldiers' graves...
Ethical doctors still venerate (observe) the principles handed down by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrites...
We venerate (look up to) the Pilgrim fathers because of their devotion to a Christian way of life....
The Mennonites venerate (think highly of) Menno Simons as their founder...
The Bible says we should venerate (honor) our parents and our elders....
To venerate (recognize) Mrs. Johnson’s fifty-five years of service in the school system, the county is naming a school in her honor...
The town plans to venerate (show appreciation for) the former president by naming a street after him....
I suspect you venerate Blessed Mary, too, if you are a Christian. She herself said, "All generations will call me blessed."
They like to play word games
Words matter.
You do realize that “worship” is not included in the list of synonyms you posted don’t you?
well done.
Amazing how outsiders of the rcc PRESUME know exactly what is going on .
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