Why are Evangelicals/Fundamentalists more obsessed with Marian doctrine than Catholics are?

[JustaServant]

Something I’ve often wondered about.
Thoughts?

 

[Rightlydivide]

I reject the premise.
Subjective and certainly not verifiable. If the question was to be reworded to why the topic comes up when discussing Catholicism, it is because we consider the emphasis excessive obviously.

 

[Tonks40]

Because they don’t understand the familial concept and the co-operative roles members of the Holy Family (and thus, the family we have in the Church) play. In America at least, as society breaks down and de-emphasizes the family, thus, too, their perceptions of our Holy Father in Heaven and his family.

 

[JustaServant]

I reject the premise.
Subjective and certainly not verifiable. If the question was to be reworded to why the topic comes up when discussing Catholicism, it is because we consider the emphasis excessive obviously.

Well thats one way of avoiding an uncomfortable question. Use projection.
The point of the thread is that it is evangelicals who excessively emphasize Marian dogma, not Catholics.
I am not speaking of all Protestants, just evangelicals who constantly harp on this. Catholics do not talk nearly as much on the subject as evangelicals do.
As a former Baptist preacher I would often hear people make the claim ‘Catholics worship Mary’, which even as a Baptist I would have to correct. It IS verifiable because I CAN verify it.

 

[Rightlydivide]

Well thats one way of avoiding an uncomfortable question. Use projection.
The point of the thread is that it is evangelicals who excessively emphasize Marian dogma, not Catholics.
I am not speaking of all Protestants, just evangelicals who constantly harp on this. Catholics do not talk nearly as much on the subject as evangelicals do.
As a former Baptist preacher I would often hear people make the claim ‘Catholics worship Mary’, which even as a Baptist I would have to correct. It IS verifiable because I CAN verify it.

As far as Catholics worshipping Mary it is a matter of how they view things. If you were outside of the Catholic Church and saw a lot of statues of someone (and you were only used to the occasional picture of Jesus in your church), prayers to someone (and were not used to praying to anyone else ie the communion of saints), and saw that people had a lot of devotional books about her, it comes across as worship. The distinctions are not something they are clear about or care about.

 

[Carlan]

Because they don’t understand the familial concept and the co-operative roles members of the Holy Family (and thus, the family we have in the Church) play. In America at least, as society breaks down and de-emphasizes the family, thus, too, their perceptions of our Holy Father in Heaven and his family.

Yes, they have never been taught to understand the concept of the Communion of Saints,the Church Militant on earth, the Saints and Angels in heaven in communion with the Trinity , Father, Son and Holy Spirit all in unity as one. Ultimately all one in the Kingdom of God the Father.Peace,Carlan

 

[theoldman]

Are we? I think not! We don’t sit around and talk about Catholic worshiping Mary or Mary draws sinners to Jesus and all that stuff. We just don’t do it

 

[Kit15]

I…really don’t think this question has been worded well at all.

I think this is either the result of either paying more attention to the loud hostility or the imbalance as to how Catholics and many Protestants deal with Mary.

Mary is such a part of the Catholic faith that there’s nothing strange about it at all from the point of view from Catholics. A Protestant, even an educated and non-hostile Protestant, may still find it pretty darn odd.

So what kind of “obsession” are we talking about? The obsession with making sure Mary gets her due with all the Marian doctrine? Or the obsession thinking that such doctrine is a bit crazy?

 

[NHInsider]

I think the OP means in the context of discussion about the Catholic faith, not just Baptists randomly bringing it up at Wednesday night prayer meeting . . .

I think the reason it comes up, over and over, is 1) because those who believe Catholics are apostates think that the veneration of Mary is a slam-dunk proof and 2) because so many poorly-catechised Catholics lend credance to that belief.