The 1st commandment of the Lord reads that we shall not worship any false gods in place or in leiu of Him. The Catholic Church, who claims to be the true church, mostly based on a loose interpretation of a vague phrase, blatnatly defies the Lord's commandment.

They defy the Lord when they openly worhip and pray to Jesus's mother, Mary and the folks whom the corrupt college of cardinals deem to be a "saint." They try to justify it thru dogmatic decrees and writings to their naive and manipulated flock. It is truly a shame that the western world's largest representation of it's faith has failed the Lord and it's membership by advocating Idol worship.

And that's all the praying to saints and Mary are. None of them are God. Christ himself instructed his apostles to walk away from their families and follow only the Lord.

If one is to believe the Bible, rather than the political interpretations of a few closeted homosexual dudes in robes, they find the following:

Acts 21:25 "As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols,."

Deut. 4:16... "that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman"

1 Cor. 12:2, "You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led."

The Bible makes no distinctions between any idols. It doesn't matter who sanctions them or who approves here on earth. But what about Mary? what about other kinds of "idol worship" does the roman Catholic Church endorse?

If one has an image of Mary then it is Mary who is venerated, just as much as an image of Jesus. Nowhere do we see this practice in the New Testament, but we do have many warnings about it. Indeed, nowhere does God approve of any type of worship toward any objects that are even of Himself, neither the tabernacle which housed His presence, nor the ark which had the tablets, were to be worshipped. Yet these were some of the most sacred objects used toward God. When Moses lifted up the Brazen altar in the wilderness for people to be healed by the bite of the serpents. Later on, when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, they brought the bronze serpent with them and turned it into an idol. It was used until King Hezekiah finally destroyed it (2 Kings 18:4). We see that something that was even used by the Lord can be turned into a superstitious idol.

When will Catholics own up to following a false church? Will they ever break the spell that the Church puts on them in their youth or at moments of weakness and vulnerability? The Lord warned us of false prophets. He didn't warn us about obviously evil people and things because he trusted man's ability to reason and see the obvious. The false prophets the Lord warned us about were the ones who would come as a beacon "of light." the prophets the Lord warned us of would be the ones that would seem to be real messengers from the Lord. Messengers and prophets like the ones that make up the Catholic Church.