Why do Catholics worship Mary as a god?

Mysticism and obsession with feminine purity.

but that's degenetacy

shes the most important and most powerful itermediary betveen humans and god, shes jesuss mom so she can directly ask him for favors from the godhead
she also represents many aspects of the divine while at the same time being a powerful mother figure and so on, so people also pray to her personaly for protection

traditional catholicism is full of such intermediary semi-divine or divine figures you can pray to and do votive acts and offerings for, saint, angels etc...

in much of rural europe this turns into a kind of totemic cult, with local patron saints and holy maries protecting each their own willage and certain saint days being localy important and so on, but individuals also often have patron saints or whatever they either choose or its a family thing

its just that catholicism is actualy a rather flexible and strangely tollerant religion that lets people worhip in whichever way suits their local culture or personal beliefs, but orthodox are more or less the same that way as well, especialy regarding saints and so on, traditionaly each family has a protector saint and thats taken quite seriously

We don't. The Blessed Virgin Mary is a saint in the Church and is respected as such. You'll find similar respect for other saints and we ask for their intercession. An intercession is the equivalent for asking a friend for their prayers to God.

We worship only one God.

technicaly yes

in reality shes worshiped as a divine protective mother figure, queen of heaven virgin mother of god, shes way more of a cult figure than any single saint, she even appears to people regurarly just like jesus but way more often

A god with three aspects, like a hydra or a Hindu.

>HURR DURR CATHOLICS WORSHIPS SAINTS LIKE GODS.

Jeez you baiters don't even try anymore. Sound like faggots from r/atheism with shit like this.

just like h2o can exist as solid, liquid or gaseous form

Glad you got that out of your system, do you have something real to contribute now?

Look at this triggered statue worshiper

Water confirmed for Divine Mystery inscrutable unto the wisest of mortals.

ad baitium

>God exists as one Person that can transform to either as Father or Son or Holy Spirit
this is heresy

and plasma and bose einstein condensate

So under certain conditions God will change either into a son or spirit?

How did this meme start?

Catholics fetishize the human condition.
That's why all their rituals are based on guilt and submission to authority, their cosmology externalizes all Good things into the spirit realm while they are left with the rotten Material world to punish them for Adam's sin.
Conveniently, any material wealth they earn must be handed over to the Church to pay off a imaginary debt.
Not even the Catholics private thoughts are off limits, for their god is the warden of the panopticon, judging their every thought and expecting sincere contrition for every moment of sinful existence.

This analogy goes against the canon and is heresy. Water is not a "simple" substance, but an aggregate of molecules. Also, "God" doesn't turn from one "state" into another, neither is the trinity a composite of different parts.

Two reasons. Because divinity must also represent the feminine aspect, even in a partiarchal religion. And god has four parts. Trinity just does not cut it.

Protestant butthurt doing what they do best, spreading falsehoods.

>shes the most important and most powerful itermediary betveen humans and god, shes jesuss mom so she can directly ask him for favors from the godhead

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Tim. 2:5)

not realy how catholicism works on site

>And god has four parts

>not worshiping a fertility god

What the fuck's the matter with you? What are you, guy or something?

>jesus-freaks worshop some slut that got knocked up out of wedlock and produced some bastard rabblerouser who pretended to be God himself
>don't even acknowledge God's actual right hand man whom he entrusted to command the angels and rule the mortal realm

>pretended to be God himself
citation needed

ah yes. please forgive me for trying to make a simple analogy. now continue to bombard me with Warhammer 40k memes

They slapped together the (((Bible))) to insert their boy Jesus into this new "Trinity" gimmick.

"I am LORD, put RESPECT on my NAME"

Christianity was tailored by Emperor Constantine the Great for better adoption by his pagan worshippers.

This is why Christmas was placed on December 25th (the date of the Roman Pagan Saturnalia), and why the cult of the virgin Mary was encouraged as a continuation of the cult of Artemis/Athena/Isis.

The Virgin Mary represents Isis just like Jesus represents Horus/Mithra and Jahweh is the continuation of Ra/Jove (Jupiter).

Because Marian veneration is a holdover from pagan traditions - people feel the need to worship a 'mother figure', and the Virgin Mary can provide that. Notice how Marian veneration is strongest among those cultures that place much importance on the extended family (Latin America and Southern Europe) and were filial bonds and obligations are more strongly felt.

In reality, the veneration of saints and of the Virgin makes no theological sense. God, being omniscient and perfectly just (supposedly) could easily hear the prayers of all people, without needing intermediaries. It is quite convoluted: why pray to an intermediary to take your prayer up to God, if one can simply pray to God to begin with and skip the middle-man? I know Catholic apologists say that these intermediaries can act like 'friends' and make God respond much more favorably, but this is convoluted and anthropocentric: why would the eternal, transcendent being behave much like a human mafia boss, instituting a form of celestial nepotism? The honest answer is that the veneration of the saints arose due to the necessity of incorporating pagans, who were used to their pantheon of myriad gods, demi-gods, hero figures, patron spirits, and defied ancestors

>inb4 "Proddy"

Former Catholic turned atheist, so don't bother. I've seen just how far worship for Mary can go, almost to the exclusion of God and Jesus.

>"ay, vamos a rezarle a la Virgencita"

Serious question who is the Jews secondary gods?

>the word "heresy" comes from W40K

Maximum autism

Prophets:
>Some examples of prophets in the Tanakh include Abraham, Moses, Miriam, Isaiah, Samuel, Ezekiel, Malachi, and Job. In Jewish tradition Daniel is not counted in the list of prophets [but basically was another prophet]

>A Jewish tradition suggests that there were twice as many prophets as the number which left Egypt, which would make 1,200,000 prophets.

From Wikipedia.

And then you have monarchs too: David, Solomon...

El is the primary god, YHWH is the secondary demiurge.

>In reality, the veneration of saints and of the Virgin makes no theological sense. God, being omniscient and perfectly just (supposedly) could easily hear the prayers of all people, without needing intermediaries.
If you work from the position of what god is capable of, all forms of prayer make no sense.

>Serious question who is the Jews secondary gods?

The Hebrews had many gods, and it was only after contact with Zoroastrianism and the Babylonian captivity that Yawheh - previously a national war/storm god - began to rise in prominence, until he became the 'only' deity. References to El and Elohim in the Bible are hints of Israelite belief in a council of gods, rather than one deity, all acting under the direction of one 'King' of the gods, much like Zeus in Hellenic paganism.

"ay, que Tontito eres"

>almost to the exclusion of God and Jesus.
So in addition to nuns proclaiming they're married to jesus you might get 'married to Mary' from different perspectives?

No, only one guy gets that.

And all Priests are married to Jesus too.

>God's actual right hand man
who?

Lucifer? Michael? Metatron?

Enoch obviously.

>itermediary
Fucking heathens. Speak directly to God.

Why don't you address your posts directly to god?

I need to make it painfully obvious to you that you're nothing more than an idol worshiper.

Idolizing Mary rather than God, Idolizing saints rather than God, Idolizing statues rather than God.

>I need to make it painfully obvious to you that you're nothing more than an idol worshiper.

Why? Couldn't God hear your request just as easily? Isn't he a greater power than me?

Any true religious system must create an image of the divine feminine to worship. That comes through in the form of the divine mother, Mary, with its male counterpart in Jesus.

Might happen unknowingly perhaps, but there is always the divine male and female aspects in all religious and spiritual systems.

Basically a relic of early pagan converts reverence for mother-god figures (the crops/hearth and home/fertility kind, rather than sex/beauty per se). For example Artemis or Hera. It was just a popular idea that made sense to them, and Christian myth-making conveniently had Jesus' mother in its early tales, so here we are.

Also, they do not worship her as God, you silly billy. I was raised Catholic (mostly lapsed nowadays, but still go on holidays as a family tradition) and my family have never been into praying to saints for intervention or feasts and shit either way though. We're German-Irish stock, but maybe it's different for Mexicans or Italians. Saints, and Mary, were just exemplars of important/pious Christians, whose life stories might have a few nuggets of wisdom for Sunday school.

because catholics are idol worshipers
saints should be admired and emulated, not prayed to and worshiped

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They don't.

They're called Collyrdians and they're recognized as heretics by the Church.

Requesting rule 34 of Virgin Mary.

>why pray to an intermediary to take your prayer up to God, if one can simply pray to God to begin with and skip the middle-man?

Humbleness is a christian virtue.

>secondary