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Posted on 01/20/2003 9:37:18 AM PST by Cvengr
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It is the quintessential hallmark of paganism.
In general, I agree with you. But for purely argumentative purposes, I'm going to split hairs for a few moments. It's just as problematic, in light of Genesis 1:27, to limit God to a MALE gender:
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. "
In other words, it takes two - a male and a female - to complete the echoing of the image of God. C.S. Lewis once attributed this sexual differentiation as the intended echoing of masculine/feminine, as opposed to male/female, attributes of God. To limit God to being exclusively male or female would limit our understanding of God to being something less than God.
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Beware of those who seek to start urinating contests with Catholics; by their fruits shalt thou know them.
Ditto.
A link for those who want to know what the Catholic Church actually teaches about The Blessed Virgin Mary.
The reason I think it flopped was because that was the whole story, new age gaiaism, which, was pretty stupid. Square should have stuck to making video games.
I agree. Any religion that would have one worship a creature (a book, let's say) rather than the Creator is on the wrong track.
...calling her "Holy Mother"...
Our Lady the Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus. Jesus is 100% God. Therefore, Our Lady the Virgin Mary is the Mother of God. QED
... "Redemptrix"...
That's co-redemptrix -- and, no, it does not mean she redeemed anybody by her own actions. It simply means she made our redemption possible (i.e. cooperated in our redemption) by her free consent to the Will of God -- by giving birth to Jesus, the Christ and the one true Redeemer.
...or "Queen of Heaven", etc.
In the Old Testament monarchy the Queen of the Davidic Kingdom was the Queen Mother. The Kings, for reasons of state and human weakness, had many wives, none of whom fittingly could be called Queen. That honor was reserved for the mother of the King, whose authority far surpassed the many "queens" married to the king... The role of the Queen Mother, therefore, is a prophetic type of the Kingdom role of Mary, just as the role of the Davidic King is a prophetic type of the Kingdom role of Jesus... Aside from the prophetic types present in the Kingdom of Judah, there is also the text of Psalm 45, which when speaking of the Kingdom of God also speaks of its Queen: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him" (Psalm 45:6-11, KJV). That Kingdom ruled by God is the same as the Kingdom ruled eternally by the Son of David. It is not an earthly kingdom, though it is present on earth in the Church, but a heavenly kingdom, the Kingdom of God. The Queen of that Kingdom is the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Lord God Jesus Christ." [Source: EWTN]Troll defeated. Nice try -- but next time haul out something better than these hoary chestnuts, eh?
Written on a typewriter, no doubt.
You forgot to mention plural gods and pluralistic names for gods.
"Hear oh Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord."
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus."
"Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one."
Many today worship pluralsitic gods contrary to God's will.
What are the crosses attracting the beam from the Death Star or something?
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