STATUES-R-US

Well here she is, the most famous idol on earth...

The Queen of Heaven (only God doesn't know she's the queen)...

The mother of God (only God never had a mother)...

The one, the only, the goddess of ... plaster, the Catholic Virgin Mary! Want to feel devout and holy?... stick her in your front yard. Want to feel safe while driving?... stick her on your dashboard. She's portable and available in quantity. She's quiet. She'll never talk back to you. She's a goddess that won't interfere in your life, unless you use her for a doorstop and accidentally trip over her. So, what's the greatest part of having her around? She will make you feel quite comfortable in your spiritually dead condition. And what could be better than that?

(Note this is NOT the Mary of the Bible who was not a perpetual virgin, but had children with her husband Joseph)...

This porcelain doll is no more than an idol. People bow down to these things and pray to them. Shame on them! God alone is worthy of the worship and adoration that people give to these dried pieces of clay. And the fools that worship them have been well discipled into thinking that they are not really worshipping a idol. They claim it is not worship and they claim they are praying to the person behind the idol or associated with the idol. Yet they are NO DIFFERENT in their actions and attitudes towards their Mary idols than the Buddhists are towards their Buddha dolls or the Hindus are towards their elephant statues.

Buy me and pray to me and I'll be your good luck charm!

You don't believe me? Try to take their idol away or smash it with a hammer. They will be enraged. They cling to their idols as if they were in fact real gods and goddesses. They don't realize they are acting just like the idol worshippers at the time of the apostle Paul who got this reaction when he told people their idols were not to be worshipped or venerated...

"Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." [Acts 19:26-28]

"Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them." [Psalms 115:2-8]