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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Nice try to bring it back to Lee, but I'll try and explain what real idolatry and spiritual fornication is. The idolatry = Pope worship, Mary idols, prayers to saints, angels. Fornication - spiritually symbolizes friendship with the world, which the RC church is, worldly and materialistic, hence Luther's Reformation due to Papal indulgences. And of course the paganizing practices and beliefs such as Christmas and Easter and everything else pagan in their great cathedrals, all of the grotesque statues and idols.
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Many people take issue with the RCC, and if the problems mentioned are legitimate issues, then the RCC has already been called out for what it is. In places like the U.S., the RCC has a particularly limited amount of influence. I don't get the point in a repetitive rehashing of complaints about the RCC when there are more important things to worry about.
You see, things like idolatry are legitimate concerns. There is often a tendency for us Christians to project things on other groups without first looking at ourselves. We point to groups like the RCC and use them as the poster child for what not to do. But doesn't this miss the point? All of us are capable of idol worship. We don't need a Mary statue to make that happen. If we become obsessed over what the Pope is doing, then perhaps we will fail to see the other 'popes' that are much more subtle and worse.