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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

"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.[/quote]

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