“And they don’t have her sitting on the mercy seat of the ark in the place of God either do they?”
No, they don’t. Notice there are no legs? She is not sitting on the mercy seat. She is above the moon OVER the seat. It is a visual analogy to Mary as the New Ark of the Covenant because she holds the Word made Flesh within her (shown as the Eucharist). Yeah, we all have eyes, but clearly some of us can see when a figure is shown ABOVE the mercy seat RATHER THAN SITTING ON IT.
Mary’s seat is not the Mercy Seat, but this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_Wisdom
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Like I said. Catholics put Mary in the place of God.
“She is not sitting on the mercy seat. She is above the moon OVER the seat.”
Um, the place Mary is situated is exactly where the mercy seat is, above the lid of the Ark of the Covenant proper. As the “moon” is in direct contact with the lid of the Ark, there is no room for another mercy seat between the Ark and the moon.
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No greater, more vile blasphemy has ever been spoken!
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