My views on the topic are more in alignment with that
of Senso.
However, for those who wish to answer abruptly
without first researching it.....(That's your Forte!)
For true insight on the topic read- (Imperative Reading)
"The Two Babylons" by the late Alexander Hislop.
Read this completely before you come "bearing gifts."
I could display sections and clippings from it, however
it would pose only to take way from the material.
For this may change the way you view everything.
The most obvious parts, of course, only go to
reiterate the origin of the ever exalted and "Hailed
Virgin Mary."
Does anyone see the problem with this??
A)For one, the attention is taken away from "God"
Himself and merely substituted with "Hail Marys" and
relics of the same sort. Thus, the attention is centered
on "her" supposed "Holiness" as opposed to Jesus
Himself........
B) One is made to see that the worship (or venereation-
it is the same thing) of Virgin Mary is really the
worship of Venus, Asarte, and that it comes from
Babylon, the center of the system is revealed to be
Satanic. If inclined to doubt this, find out why it is that
a statue of Virgin of La Salette is considered more
favorable than the statue of the Virgin of Lordes, or vice
versa: why the Virgin in Algiers Cathedral is a Negress;
and why the Jesuits push for the proclamation of the
error that there is one mediator between Christ and man, and that is Mary, mediatrix. (By all means, read this
book.)
C) According to the Chaldean doctrine, Semiramis,
the wife of Ninus or Nimrod, when exalted to Divinity
under the name of the Queen of Heaven, came, as we
have seen, to be worshipped as Juno, the "Dove"
in other words, the holy Spirit incarnate. (
?)
I have many examples and parallels of the sort, but
will not cheapen it further by arguing it's legitamacy.
However, I shall only decidedly attempt to scratch
an itch by stating the following:
This is from the curse fulminated against Mr. Hogan
for leaving the Church of Rome, and assigning his
reasons for doing so. (-See Begg's handbook.)
see also Blakeney's Popery in it's social aspect p. 126
and Note to p. 127.
"May the Father, who creates man, curse Him! May the
Son, who suffered for us, curse him! May the Holy
Ghost who suffered for us in baptism, curse him!"
....this only shows to prove something else...
?)