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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unapologetic Catholic: Why are you praying to Mary? There is no one you need pray to besides God the Father / Son / Holy Spirit. Anything else breaks the first Commandment.[/quote]

Catholics are encouraged to pray to saints, asking them to “intercede” for them with god.

For instance, if your name is Catherine, you might like to pray to st Catherine and ask her to pass on your requests to god. [b]He might pay more attention if one of his saints asks him than he would if asked by a mere mortal. [/b]

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[b]I am honestly LMAO! You really think God needs a support staff through which prayers travel?! I could not be happier that I’m Protestant now and no longer Catholic - this reasoning is absurd![/quote][/b]

Agree! I guess I’m still Catholic since I haven’t flipped to another religious alternative. We were taught never to worship false idols or pray to them for salvation, yet saints/priests were ok to act on our behalf. Twelve years of Catholic school and I just prayed to God (aka something greater than us). Never have an image of God. Never did a rosary or the stations. Only a few times said the prayer to Saint Anthony when something was lost (it worked once or twice). Honestly, it’s between me and the greater good. It’s all semantics, symbolism and interpretation. The only thing that’s solid is good vs evil. Clearly these criminals represent evil and certainly are false idols[b]. I never idolized them because I never believed they were closer to God than me. [/b]Thankful I didn’t experience the atrocities of the victims and so heartbroken for their suffering. [/quote]

It’s pretty clear in the Bible that we don’t need a middle man.  It’s criminal that the Catholic Church has taught so many that they do.  They did so for the same reason their sermons were in a language people didn’t even understand - for power and to keep people dumb.  The catholic church is NOT about Christ.  It’s about men. [/quote]

NOW we're getting some true anti-catholicism. bigot obsessed poster, where are you when the actual tenents of your faith are attacked?[/quote]

I’m one of the posters who’s been calling bigots, bigots. I’m not Catholic, fwiw, and I never have been. So I don’t feel obliged to let you bully me into defending any tenets.  But yep, the hate from posters like you and pp is palpable and clearly bigoted.

Wherever you and pp get your  moral values—atheism, evangelicalism—these values are failing badly.[/quote]

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