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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

"Christianity in the first 1500 years was not monolithic".  Hasty generalization.

Christianity has always been monotheistic.[/quote]

"monolithic" and "monotheistic" are two different words that have different meanings, and are not even similar in meaning. [/quote]

Of course they are different.  However, since Christianity is monotheistic, it can be said to be monolithic in that sense.
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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

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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.

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