[CynicalBear]

>>Rather, ask yourselves, why after 1500 and 17 years, did some fallen individuals begin declaring that she was nothing special?<<

Ask yourself. Why not one word about Mary after Pentecost? Nothing about where she lived, where she died or anything. Not a word from either religious or secular writers until centuries later.

[paladinan]

Ask yourself. Why not one word about Mary after Pentecost?

In the Bible, you mean? I ask, because Protestants have a tendency to ignore Church history when it isn't in the 66-book fragment which Protestants call "the Bible". And if anyone suggests that mention of Mary wasn't until "centuries later", then I'd suggest that such people look again.