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Anonymous wrote:I am a Protestant and I consider worship of Mary to be idolatry - and I say this as someone who used to LOVE Mary, before I was saved.
We are only supposed to worship God and God alone.
Catholics don't worship Mary. They honor Mary just as all Christians did for the first 1500 years of the faith.
Were you aware of the Marian Apparitions? I went to Protestant churches for many years and never heard about them.
"just as all Christians did for the first 1500 years of the faith" is a sweeping generalization — more formally, it’s a type of hasty generalization or even no true Scotsman (depending on how it’s used).
Why?
The sentence claims universal agreement (“all Christians”) over a vast time period (1500 years) and across diverse geographic, cultural, and theological contexts, without evidence and without accounting for exceptions, disagreements, or nuance.
Christianity in the first 1500 years was not monolithic.
There were diverse theological schools, regional variations, and disputes about Marian doctrines even before the Protestant Reformation.
Claiming “all Christians” did something erases historical complexity and oversimplifies.
"Christianity in the first 1500 years was not monolithic". Hasty generalization.
Christianity has always been monotheistic.
"monolithic" and "monotheistic" are two different words that have different meanings, and are not even similar in meaning.
Of course they are different. However, since Christianity is monotheistic, it can be said to be monolithic in that sense.
Just because all Christians believe in one God (monotheism)
does not mean that all Christians believe the same things, practice the same way, or agree on all doctrines (monolithic).
Christianity is monotheistic — yes.
But it is not monolithic, because:
✅ There are countless denominations
✅ There are diverse interpretations of scripture
✅ There are theological, cultural, and liturgical variations
Lady, we can't just go around just saying things to be saying things and being illogical, just saying stuff
Monolithic does not mean that EVERY teaching of the religion has to be universally accepted. It only means that a central tenet of the religion is universally accepted. Such is the case with Christianity.
Why is this statement not logically sound?
1. It redefines "monolithic" incorrectly
The statement mischaracterizes the meaning of monolithic.
Monolithic does not just mean “we all agree on one central idea”
It means the group is largely uniform, undivided, and without significant internal variation, especially in structure, beliefs, or practices.
Simply having one central tenet (e.g., belief in one God, or belief that Jesus is the Son of God) does not make a religion monolithic — because the religion can still have huge variation in other doctrines, practices, and interpretations.
In short:
Shared core ≠ Monolithic structure
(You can have unity on a core point but still massive diversity otherwise)
2. The conclusion does not follow (Non sequitur fallacy)
“…Such is the case with Christianity.”
This conclusion assumes that because Christians broadly agree on one central tenet, Christianity as a whole is monolithic — but that does not logically follow.
Christianity has enormous denominational, doctrinal, cultural, and liturgical diversity, even if many Christians agree on one central idea (e.g., Jesus is Lord).
Thus:
Agreement on one point does not erase all other diversity or make the religion monolithic.
Logical Fallacies at play
✅ Misdefinition fallacy (defining a term incorrectly to suit the argument)
✅ Non sequitur (the conclusion does not logically follow from the premise)
✅ Oversimplification
Clear summary
The statement is illogical because it redefines "monolithic" incorrectly and wrongly concludes that agreement on one belief makes Christianity monolithic — ignoring the vast diversity that clearly exists.
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