[daniel1212]

I think Catholics are awesome Christians but i will never understand the Mary thing, I guess. I could see imitating the saints and the “fathers of the faith” and such but I don’t see much actually written about Mary in the Bible. She was humble, that’s a good thing obviously, to imitate. But the veneration takes her to a new place altogether. I’m sure I’m uninformed somehow....

was Mary the mother of Jesus, yes or no?.....

We indeed should look to the Mary of Scripture as an example of one who followed Christ, along with many others, though with Paul's labour of love in birthing and nurturing souls actually being given far more elaboration by the Holy Spirit of Christ than Mary.

And who is not the Mary of Catholicism, which turns the humble and holy Mary of Scripture into a demigoddess, thinking of men above that which is written, as Scripture was/is the transcendent supreme standard for obedience and testing and establishing truth claims as the wholly Divinely inspired and assured, Word of God, as is abundantly evidenced.

And which testifies (Lk. 24:27,44, etc.) to writings of God being recognized and established as being so (essentially due to their unique and enduring heavenly qualities and attestation) - without an infallible magisterium - and thus they materially provide for a canon of Scripture (as well as for reason, the church, etc.)