I have to disagree with you on this as a Protestant, too. Praying to the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary and all the other Saints, or even the souls in Purgatory and Heaven, are all valid and Christian. Including using icons. Praying to something isn't worshiping it. We are only to worship God, yes, but Mother Mary and all the Saints are also intercessors for you like Jesus is for God. You have a whole team of amazing, hand picked chosen souls by God who fight for you. This means Saint John Chrysostom, who said "it is the duty of every Christian to hate the jews" can hear your prayers and will support you against the jew on behalf of God. It's no different than asking others around you like me to pray for you. This means yes, Hitler, Goebbels and even Mussolini can hear your prayers and also intercede on behalf of God for you just like Jesus. Isn't that awesome??? Remember, this is what all of Christian Europe believed and practiced for the thousands of years as we were expelling and killing jews until Napoleon ended it by destroying the Christian Nobility and emancipating the jew. I know it's difficult to see it this way after being raised as a Protestant (I was, anyway), but as I began to study more and more about what the jew did to Christianity, I found a lot of these practices to be completely sound. [This](https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-pray-to-mary-saints-if-you-can-pray-to-omnipresent-jesus) is a good read on the topic. Remember, praying to someone is not worshiping them. You're only glorifying God through them, doing as He commanded us to do
Do you ever ask others to pray for you? It's not that God needs them, it's that you do, and He provides them for you to uplift us all together in His name. They're not competing with Jesus, they're collaborating with Him for you.
> *"Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.*" - 2 Corinthians 1:11
I know it seems really foreign at first and that's okay. I was against it for 30 years of my life too. But the more I thought and studied it after learning the jew, the more it just makes total sense
It's hard enough to get Christians on board with the concept of the Holy Trinity. Once you begin adding a long list of other saints to pray to then it starts to become polytheistic and you alienate even more people from the religion I think.
Also I am not the best Christian scholar so I am just being honest about my own beliefs and not trying to change anyone's religion.
>It's hard enough to get Christians on board with the concept of the Holy Trinity. Once you begin adding a long list of other saints to pray to then it starts to become polytheistic and you alienate even more people from the religion I think.
Try to look at it like this: we've been Christian since 33 AD, and then it spread all over Europe and became unified for all our nations when King Alfred the Great and Charlemagne destroyed the pagan vikings. That's when we entered the golden ages for our race; we were expelling jews and killing them, building amazing castles, cathedrals, living long heathy lives, and flourishing under Christianity; all without jewish usury. That whole time, we were praying to Saints and Blessed Virgin Mother Mary; we were teaching it as commonly as we teach Jesus Christ resurrecting on the Cross today. The whole concept of not praying to Saints because we think it's idolatry or we don't need them because we only need Christ is new and only started around 1700s. Even the Lutherans were doing it in the 1500s. If we're going to bring anyone to Christianity, I think it's important that we talk about the whole of Christianity, which is the Way, the Truth and the Life. I understand you're not the best Christian scholar (yet), but your beliefs must be rooted in facts and history of Christianity and not just your own interpretations. Otherwise you're at risk for falling for jewish propaganda and subversion which is really hard to discern the Truth from. You don't have to change and learn immediately, but at least consider these things and start looking into them while asking questions. Saints are referred to several times in the Bible, but as Protestants we never talk about or consider them. We never talk about or consider demons or exorcisms either. No miracles. No fasting. Not even the Eucharist. If we started paying attention to the Truth and history of these things, would Christianity flourish and thus the jew and non-Whites be removed as natural progression into that or will we remain forever disjointed following a watered down jewed version of Christianity that we don't even know much about our selves?
He didn't say No one comes to the Father but through My Mother.
Stop praying to Virgin Mary. She was a mere mortal. She is not God.
I usually go directly to God. God is infinite and not limited. He doesn't need intermediaries or secretaries micro managing His work for him.
> *"Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.*" - 2 Corinthians 1:11
I know it seems really foreign at first and that's okay. I was against it for 30 years of my life too. But the more I thought and studied it after learning the jew, the more it just makes total sense
Also I am not the best Christian scholar so I am just being honest about my own beliefs and not trying to change anyone's religion.
Try to look at it like this: we've been Christian since 33 AD, and then it spread all over Europe and became unified for all our nations when King Alfred the Great and Charlemagne destroyed the pagan vikings. That's when we entered the golden ages for our race; we were expelling jews and killing them, building amazing castles, cathedrals, living long heathy lives, and flourishing under Christianity; all without jewish usury. That whole time, we were praying to Saints and Blessed Virgin Mother Mary; we were teaching it as commonly as we teach Jesus Christ resurrecting on the Cross today. The whole concept of not praying to Saints because we think it's idolatry or we don't need them because we only need Christ is new and only started around 1700s. Even the Lutherans were doing it in the 1500s. If we're going to bring anyone to Christianity, I think it's important that we talk about the whole of Christianity, which is the Way, the Truth and the Life. I understand you're not the best Christian scholar (yet), but your beliefs must be rooted in facts and history of Christianity and not just your own interpretations. Otherwise you're at risk for falling for jewish propaganda and subversion which is really hard to discern the Truth from. You don't have to change and learn immediately, but at least consider these things and start looking into them while asking questions. Saints are referred to several times in the Bible, but as Protestants we never talk about or consider them. We never talk about or consider demons or exorcisms either. No miracles. No fasting. Not even the Eucharist. If we started paying attention to the Truth and history of these things, would Christianity flourish and thus the jew and non-Whites be removed as natural progression into that or will we remain forever disjointed following a watered down jewed version of Christianity that we don't even know much about our selves?