“Is that why you fashion statues and images of dead “saints,” kneel before them and light candles and incense in offerings to them?”
Let me correct your errors which are so common among anti-Catholics:
1) The saints are not dead - but alive in Christ.
2) I’ve never lit a candle or offered incense to any saint, or any image of a saint. If I light a candle it is as a reminder that Christ is the light of the world. As a layperson I have never used incense for anything. If you want to know how incense is commonly used, please see this: http://www.adoremus.org/0212Herrera.html
“Follow up question - How can what I described be anything except worship?”
1) I think you first have to deal with the fact that you presented a false premise. In other words, to “describe” what you falsely ascribe to us as “worship” would be a logical error on your part to begin with since you were wrong to begin with.
2) Since we don’t worship saints, it behooves you to not make the error of saying we do. When you say, “How can what I described be anything except worship?” I can’t help but wonder how you can make the mistakes you do when we’re in the information age. It’s not hard to learn the truth.
Who are the Dead in Christ?
I hear that they may be going on a long trip someday...
1 Thessalonians 4:16