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So you realize how offensive accusing Catholics, many of whom are dying alongside the Orthodox in the Middle East, as devil worshippers is?
The most recent martyr was a Syriac Catholic priest who spoke the same language my Syriac Orthodox churches uses, a dialect of Aramaic, the language apoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Are you daring to accuse him of Satanism?
The Orthodox Church does not officially refer to the Blessed Theotokos as the Queen of Heaven. But such an appelation is not entirely incompatible with our worldview. And I believe the fact that we have never committed attrocities on the scale of the Roman Catholic Church, and have had more martyrs than all Protestant churches combined since Jan Hus and the Waldensians, and that our theology has not changed in at least 1500 years, nor has our worship, gives us the right to exonerate our Roman Catholic brethren of the false charge of worshipping the devil.
Emerkus is confusing Ishtar with devotional language used by pious Catholics to refer to Mary. But there is correlation, not causation; St. Mary has been an object of profound veneration since her death in the first century, when her remains were translated to the Holy Land and then vanished under mysterious circumstances. There is no actual likeness between Mary as venerated by Catholics and Ishtar/Astarte, the Semitic sex goddess St. Jeremiah is referring to. Where are the temple prostitutes, the animal and human sacrifices, and the other facets of the cult of Ishtar?
Roman Catholics do not even worship Mary (at least those properly catechized); the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith correctly rejected as not of supernatural orgin the visions of Ida Peerdeman, who saw a threatening figure that demanded to be worshipped as co-redemptrix. Not of supernatural origin means of demonic, insane, or imagined origin.
The most recent martyr was a Syriac Catholic priest who spoke the same language my Syriac Orthodox churches uses, a dialect of Aramaic, the language apoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Are you daring to accuse him of Satanism?
The Orthodox Church does not officially refer to the Blessed Theotokos as the Queen of Heaven. But such an appelation is not entirely incompatible with our worldview. And I believe the fact that we have never committed attrocities on the scale of the Roman Catholic Church, and have had more martyrs than all Protestant churches combined since Jan Hus and the Waldensians, and that our theology has not changed in at least 1500 years, nor has our worship, gives us the right to exonerate our Roman Catholic brethren of the false charge of worshipping the devil.
Emerkus is confusing Ishtar with devotional language used by pious Catholics to refer to Mary. But there is correlation, not causation; St. Mary has been an object of profound veneration since her death in the first century, when her remains were translated to the Holy Land and then vanished under mysterious circumstances. There is no actual likeness between Mary as venerated by Catholics and Ishtar/Astarte, the Semitic sex goddess St. Jeremiah is referring to. Where are the temple prostitutes, the animal and human sacrifices, and the other facets of the cult of Ishtar?
Roman Catholics do not even worship Mary (at least those properly catechized); the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith correctly rejected as not of supernatural orgin the visions of Ida Peerdeman, who saw a threatening figure that demanded to be worshipped as co-redemptrix. Not of supernatural origin means of demonic, insane, or imagined origin.
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