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God several times throughout Scripture says He will not share His glory,
while Catholics glorify, venerate, and adore Mary. Jesus did not once in
Scripture address Mary as His mother, but Catholics call her the mother
of humanity, and as if that were not enough, the queen of heaven.
Jesus said that anyone who did the will of God was His mother, His brother,
His sister. Jesus never elevated Mary above others, but Catholics feel a need
to not just elevate Mary above others, but they put her on a par with Jesus in
terms of His sinlessness! (Do you really think that she needed to be sinless so
that Jesus Christ would be sinless?) They are forced by so-called infallible
papal decree to accept the Marian dogmas of her bodily assumption and
immaculate conception, neither of which have any basis whatsoever in Scripture.
Jesus told us to pray to our Father in heaven, yet they pray to Mary, because
their popes tell them to despite what Jesus explicitly instructed. Scripture
clearly states that there is one intercessor between God and man, yet their
popes, bishops, priests, parishioners etc, will tell you to pray to Mary, and
other dead people, for intercession. They fault those who do as Jesus
suggested, while they disobey Him to follow someone else instead.
We see nothing in Scripture to endorse her bodily assumption, her perpetual
virginity (Jesus had siblings after all, two of whom have books in the Bible!),
her immaculate conception. We see no need to pray to her, or any ability on
her part, as dead as she is believed to be, to intercede on our behalf against
the explicit words of Jesus in Scripture.
Within Catholicism, there is a drive to define a new Marian dogma in which
Catholics, as a matter of faith, would be obliged to accept: 1) Mary participates
in redemption with Jesus Christ; 2) grace is granted by Jesus only through the
intercession of Mary; and 3) all prayers from the faithful must flow through Mary,
who brings them to the attention of her Son.