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Speaking of Mary worship, I recall a scripture where a well-meaning woman approached Jesus and spontaneously shouted praises about his mother. Jesus stopped her and said "No, happy is the person finding the Kingdom of God and keeping it." Sounds like a pretty good example to emulate, what with it coming out of the mouth of no less than Jesus himself...yet the Catholic Church venerates Mary as if she were God Himself.
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Yes, Happy is the person who finds the Kingdom of God.
What you are doing is nitpicking (Not that I take any side).
It is evident that a Mother, to any sane person, is an icon of reverence since she raises and tend a child till adulthood. I am no Catholic, but that is possibly the reason why the Catholics club Virgin Mary as a icon for reverence.
But then, God (an unknown and unseen icon that supposedly protects mankind and is supreme to all living beings) is taken to be higher than the Mother in the reverence quotient. That is what is meant by this statement that "Happy is the person who finds the Kingdom of God".
What is "Kingdom of God"? To me, it is the realm of extreme satisfaction and good cheer without the hocus pocus of religiosity. To reach it, one has to have a simplistic life and be happy in whatever one does. No amount of scriptures can get you there!
If one is to nitpick, prove that there is God!
Let people be in whatever they believe or do not believe.
The bottomline is happiness and satisfaction!
That is the "Kingdom of God".
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"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
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