The Sin of "Mariolatry"

[Guest guest]

Since we're on the subject of Protestant Christian fundamentalists

and their myriad hang-ups, and since our primary focus here is the

worship and exultation of the Goddess, I thought I'd share some

fascinating (and rather disturbing) discussion of the fundamentalist

Christian aversion to Goddess worship in any form.

 

I focus on Protestant forms of Christianity because that's where most

of the doctrinal fundamentalist action is. Although the Bible goes

out of its way to erase the Divine Feminine from human consciousness,

Roman Catholicism has quietly accepted the Goddess in the form of the

Virgin Mary. Although she is denied full divinity in theory, in

practice she has become the repository of much pre-Christian goddess

ritual and belief. (This is not a "crackpot feminist theory"; it's

historically documented fact, well-covered in Baring & Cashford's

monumental work, "The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image").

 

Protestant fundamentalists, envisioning themselves -- like

fundamentalists of any religion -- as the standbearers of a return to

religious "purity," point to Roman Catholicism's acceptance of Mary

as proof-positive that the Vatican represents a degenerate and

debased from of Christianity. Since the very word "Idolatry" evokes

Sin in the fundamentalist Christian vocabulary (it's also their

favored description of Hinduism), they have expropriated the

phonetically similar term "Mariolatry" to suggest that the worship of

Mary is also a sin.

 

If you think your stomach can take it, here is a link to a

fundamentalist website that will tell you all about the sinfulness of

believing that Mary, or any other form of the Goddess, is Divine. It

is subtly titled, "Worship of Mary Angers God" ...

 

http://www.acts1711.com/mariolatry.htm

 

Whoa. Does the human race really have time for much more of this kind

of nonsense?

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe