You may not be bothered by the whole Mary worship thing... but you wanted to know what bothered protestants, so I told you. I am sure Mary was a nice lady, but point me to where in the scriptures it says that good Christians are imbued after death with magical God like powers to hear the prayers of literally billions of people. I am not buying it. Only God is Omnipotent.
“I am sorry, but the whole praying to saints thing is just... well... it smacks of polytheism honestly.”
Not to orthodox Christians.
“I am not going to pray to some plastic statue of a dead saint.”
None of us does that. May I suggest something to you? If you don’t want to come across as a moron bigot, go ahead and attack what we ACTUALLY do or believe rather than accuse us of praying to “some plastic statue of a dead saint.” To make up something like that just makes you look ignorant.
“You may not be bothered by the whole Mary worship thing...”
Well, it’s hard to be bothered by something that isn’t happening. We don’t worship Mary. Anti-Catholic bigots, however, will go ahead and claim it anyway.
“but you wanted to know what bothered protestants, so I told you.”
No. I didn’t want to know. I just complained about your complaints. And mine, unlike yours, were all valid.
“I am sure Mary was a nice lady, but point me to where in the scriptures it says that good Christians are imbued after death with magical God like powers to hear the prayers of literally billions of people. I am not buying it. Only God is Omnipotent.”
What’s impossible with God? Nothing. If God wants His saints - united with Him in Heaven - to hear our prayers to bind us closer to Him He can do it. There’s no “magical” power involved at all. It’s simply grace. If God can arrange for saints to judge the fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:2-3), what can’t He do for us?