catholics have 20 rules regarding indulgences; rule 17 says you can gain a partial indulgence, but if this object of piety is blessed by a pope or bishop then whoever use it can also gain full indulgence on the feast of apostles > literal idols, that have power to grant what is given to you by god and jesus > just worship my shit up catholics also enforce the 'assumption of mary' that literally gives you two options; you have to either believe mary didn't die and was taken up to heaven alive, or that mary died and was resurrected because catholics enforce that mary is bodily in heaven, like jesus is bodily in heaven, not spiritually like you or me would be john 8:48 jesus says "before abraham was, i am" meaning he was around long before mary jesus says you saw no face when god spoke to you, you only heard a voice, so don't corrupt yourselves and make a graven image jeremiah 7:18 "the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger"   -xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p- xii_enc_11101954_ad-caeli-reginam.h tml catholics enforce that mary is referred to as the queen of heaven "so that she becomes a partner in the redemption of the human race. it was she who free of the stain of actual and original sin" (meaning she didn't inherit any original sin from adam, and she was never had any sin of her own, she's perfect) "and evermost bound close to her son, on golgotha offered that son to the eternal father together with the complete sacrifice of her maternal rights and maternal love, like a new eve, for all the sons of adam, stained as they were by his lamentable fall" did you catch that? catholics believe mary offered jesus to god, then say it was her right to do so since jesus belonged to her, then compared mary to eve, and then blamed adam for eve's fall.
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