Biblical history shows to us a real Mary, and there is also a counterfeit Mary who never really existed except in the annals of cultic origin. The mother-son imagery dates all the way back to Babel. The 40 days of Lent parallel exactly with the cultic practice of mourning for Tamuz, who allegedly had been killed by wild animals and torn to pieces, with his mother allegedly gathering up the pieces into a basket, initiating a 40 day mourning, and him allegedly raising from the dead by a power I can't quite put my finger upon.
"The pagan system of sun worship had three main aspects: the father, mother, and the son. In ancient Chaldean times, these were the god Bel or Merodach, Ninus the son who was also worshiped as Tammuz, and the female goddess Rhea who was also worshiped as Ishtar, Astarte, or Beltis. She was also referred to as the “queen of heaven,” and the “wrath subduer.” Mary has received these same names in Catholicism.
Mother and child worship was the basis of the ancient religions. In the various religions of the world, the same system of worship was perpetuated under different names. In Egypt , the mother and child were worshiped as Isis and Osiris or Horus, in India as Isi and Iswara, in China and Japan as the mother goddess Shing-moo with child, in Greece as Ceres or Irene and Plutus, in Rome as Fortuna and Jupitor-puer, or Venus and Adurnis, and in Scandinavia as Frigga and Balder. The mother and child were worshiped in Babylon as Ishtar and Tammuz, and in Phoenicia, as Ashtoreth and Baal. Moreover, the child was worshiped as both husband and son of the mother goddess." [https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_paganism_Catholic_Nimrod_Mary#!]
Many of my RCC friends have tried to distinguish their Mary from those pagan goddesses who were also attributed as "queen of heaven." Given that not one of the apostles addressed her as such, and especially the Lord Jesus calling her "woman" rather than addressing her as "mother," we're left wondering about the parallels with paganism rather than any expressed desire to distance themselves from them. The RCC can't claim copy-cat syndrome against those other religions since they existed thousands of years before the RCC was ever even conceived as even a distant thought. Given that the apostles never once even hinted at such imagery shows to us how contrived those images are as an alignment with paganism in relation to the purity of doctrine and practice handed down to us from the apostles.
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"The pagan system of sun worship had three main aspects: the father, mother, and the son. In ancient Chaldean times, these were the god Bel or Merodach, Ninus the son who was also worshiped as Tammuz, and the female goddess Rhea who was also worshiped as Ishtar, Astarte, or Beltis. She was also referred to as the “queen of heaven,” and the “wrath subduer.” Mary has received these same names in Catholicism.
Mother and child worship was the basis of the ancient religions. In the various religions of the world, the same system of worship was perpetuated under different names. In Egypt , the mother and child were worshiped as Isis and Osiris or Horus, in India as Isi and Iswara, in China and Japan as the mother goddess Shing-moo with child, in Greece as Ceres or Irene and Plutus, in Rome as Fortuna and Jupitor-puer, or Venus and Adurnis, and in Scandinavia as Frigga and Balder. The mother and child were worshiped in Babylon as Ishtar and Tammuz, and in Phoenicia, as Ashtoreth and Baal. Moreover, the child was worshiped as both husband and son of the mother goddess." [https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_paganism_Catholic_Nimrod_Mary#!]
Many of my RCC friends have tried to distinguish their Mary from those pagan goddesses who were also attributed as "queen of heaven." Given that not one of the apostles addressed her as such, and especially the Lord Jesus calling her "woman" rather than addressing her as "mother," we're left wondering about the parallels with paganism rather than any expressed desire to distance themselves from them. The RCC can't claim copy-cat syndrome against those other religions since they existed thousands of years before the RCC was ever even conceived as even a distant thought. Given that the apostles never once even hinted at such imagery shows to us how contrived those images are as an alignment with paganism in relation to the purity of doctrine and practice handed down to us from the apostles.
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