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First: There is no such person as the “blessed Virgin St. Mary” since she had at least 6 children after she gave birth to Jesus, which means she had sexual relations with her husband Joseph.
Second: The moratorium against idolatry is absolute, not just against idols of “satan””, Baal…”.
Remember, Aaron created the golden calf to be a physical representation of Yahweh.
These are clearly idols, especially that idol of Jesus on the cross: That is an idol of God, like Aaron’s golden calf, and clearly violates the commandment.
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Red herring alert
First: The topic is not about the Blessed Virgin St. Mary and all the alleged (emphasis added) “children” that protestants want to claim she had, nor was the topic about Semper Virgo (her Perpetual virginity). There’s another thread on that very topic.
Second: Perhaps you should read the Magnificat.
Luk 1:46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,
Luk 1:47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
Luk 1:48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed…
Third: Jesus on the cross is a Christological statement, additionally it represents Christ wailing and shedding his blood on the cross for our sins.
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.
Crucifixes are totally appropriate and it’s not violating any of God‘s laws, etc.
Baptist have empty Crosses for a reason because they don’t believe Jesus comes to them at Holy communion.
Jesus comes to me in the Eucharist at every Divine service (Mass) and we feast on Christ for the forgiveness of sin and the strengthening and nourishment of the soul. Mankind fell by eating, man kind saved by eating, man ate from a living tree and death came, man eats the fruit from a dead tree, the cross and life comes. Where there is forgiveness of sins there is life. The medicine of immortality (Lord's Supper, sacrament of the Altar), it's potent stuff. (unrelated topic to the 10 Commandments).
To end, which I’ve already stated, the idolatry comments are just bad characters built off faulty hermeneutics and suspicion of all things Roman Catholic for the sake of be anti-catholic (that wasn’t the purpose of the reformation).
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