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That's a reasonable response on the Mary question, so please don't think I'm just trying to pick a fight or beat you up. It still just doesn't jive. I often compare Catholicism to Talmudic Judaism. You've taken the scriptures, fully sufficient on their own, and built up this whole system on top of it, so complex that you need canon lawyers to sort it out because even a lot of priests don't know what's going on. I understand and appreciate what you have to say about prayers to Mary and the saints, but frankly that's just you. Catholicism itself is a system that very much allows for this kind of idolatry which, based on the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, is in fact authorized. This isn't fringe stuff.
Even aside from the inappropriate prayer to Mary and other saints, you have things like the brown scapular. What right Mary has to promise salvation by any other means than that we see in the Bible is beyond me, but we know what the apostles had to say about those who spread false gospels.