I am Catholic and I WORSHIP MARY!

[Peter_J]

We VENERATE the saints, we WORSHIP God.

Don’t play games with theological vocabulary.

I think perhaps what this thread does is more to call attention to semantics, rather than to play games with semantics.

 

[Peter_J]

Semantics…always interesting. I understand the logic behind this thread but I cringed when I read this Thread title! haha Cringed because many Non-Catholics already have the perception that we “worship Mary” and may not even take the time to look at this thread and understand why you said what you said!

I see your point that many might just see the thread title and not read the thread. But even then, what conclusion should they draw? I think too many Protestants are too quick to say “Catholics believe such-and-such. I know because I heard a Catholic say it.” (And conversely, too many Catholics are too quick to say “Protestants believe such-and-such. I know because I heard a Protestant say it.”) That seems to me the greater lesson here.

 

[IamDust]

I see your point that many might just see the thread title and not read the thread. But even then, what conclusion should they draw? I think too many Protestants are too quick to say “Catholics believe such-and-such. I know because I heard a Catholic say it.” (And conversely, too many Catholics are too quick to say “Protestants believe such-and-such. I know because I heard a Protestant say it.”) That seems to me the greater lesson here.

I agree with that Peter! Unfortunately, many people Catholics and Non alike fall into those two categories. I, for one, have done that many times in the past and still slip every once in a while. Thank you for your insight!

 

[tGette]

Semantics…always interesting. I understand the logic behind this thread but I cringed when I read this Thread title! haha Cringed because many Non-Catholics already have the perception that we “worship Mary” and may not even take the time to look at this thread and understand why you said what you said!

I agree with many above posters that because of translations and the English language lacking words that fully describe the meaning of Latin, Hebrew, and Greek words, we do not realize the beauty and clear understanding of many Biblical passages.

tGette, thanks for the language lesson and for the attempt to lighten the mood here at CAF, but I urge you to be careful in your approach!

May God Bless you all!

In Christ,
IamDust

IamDust:
Thank you for the warning!

I think initially I thought the thread title would draw attention, never did I think of the implications you have brought to my attention!

I will “keep vigil” before I make threads from now on!

Seriously though, I tend to not pray enough and think enough before hand about how the original post and title should be done on my threads!

Again, thanks for the simple, yet great, advice!

 

[tGette]

I think perhaps what this thread does is more to call attention to semantics, rather than to play games with semantics.

Wonderful point!

 

[CTA1967]

Who wants to bet some extreme fundamentalist Protestant is going to see this thread title and make a 2000 word blog on how Catholics are the spawn of the devil?

 

[tGette]

Who wants to bet some extreme fundamentalist Protestant is going to see this thread title and make a 2000 word blog on how Catholics are the spawn of the devil?

All because of little ol’ me?
And they will add the fact that you wanted to make a bet to prove their point! hehe!

I guess I will have to do the same and make a blog about why the devil has never and will never destroy the Catholic Church!

 

[Peter_J]

Who wants to bet some extreme fundamentalist Protestant is going to see this thread title and make a 2000 word blog on how Catholics are the spawn of the devil?

CTA, my suggestion would be to worry less about Protestants and more about the “plank in your own eye”.

 

[CTA1967]

CTA, my suggestion would be to worry less about Protestants and more about the “plank in your own eye”.

Yes, good point. But I think the title is a bit provocative, and someone’s bound to take it the wrong way and mislead other people.

 

[churchcamefirst]

I sincerely know that Protestants don’t think we really worship Mary. That’s all they have on the Catholics to keep saying this. It is all they say about us when they really know in their hearts that it isn’t true.

 

[water]

I know the title is a joke, but did it ever occur to any of us that there could be some people who only read the title and believe it without reading any further… The fact is there are quite many people doing that already when they don’t investigate what it is that the Catholics believe, they only heard from others and spread it.

 

[churchcamefirst]

I know the title is a joke, but did it ever occur to any of us that there could be some people who only read the title and believe it without reading any further… The fact is there are quite many people doing that already when they don’t investigate what it is that the Catholics believe, they only heard from others and spread it.

Absolutely