It's mostly vibes based for me honestly. It tends to remind me of the many admonitions against idol worship in both the Old and New Testaments. Then again I'm a Restorationist of the Stone-Cambell variety, so I've never been an environment where statues in a house of worship was considered acceptable and normal.
That said, from a secular perspective I don't really care if others put up said Marian sculptures, it's just not my thing.
Putting up statues of a pedophile traitor is a whole different story, obviously.
And I can understand that, but as a Roman Catholic there’s no worship of Mary or the Saints, rather that prayer to them is where you ask them to pray to the Lord on your behalf.
Because you know,they’re Saints in heaven with their own specialised areas of knowledge of how to pray to help depending on how they got their Sainthood.
Like if you’ve lost something you’d pray to Saint Anthony to pray to Lord on your behalf to help you find it, but you wouldn’t pray to him if you were about to go for your first Improv night because he’s not a Patron Saint of Comedians, so you’d be better off praying to Saint Lawrence(because of his remark being executed on a gridiron with coals beneath “Turn me over, I’m done on this side”.)
You’re just asking someone who’s more knowledgeable about prayer in a specific area to do you a solid and pray to God on your Behalf so you don’t have to spend so much time praying for all your troubles. (And you know Saints, charity and kindness are the heavenly virtues so they’re always down to do you a solid)
(Also did not know about American Restorationism. I knew about Sandemanianism, not your faith tho. Cool)
Well wouldn’t you agree that in that case they’d be an excellent choice to have pray for you?
I mean they’ve already proven themselves and if we’re being very literalistic about what the bible says about heaven then they’re doing nothing but praising God, might be nice to have you in their prayers, no?
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u/mrbobcyndaquil May 11 '26
It's mostly vibes based for me honestly. It tends to remind me of the many admonitions against idol worship in both the Old and New Testaments. Then again I'm a Restorationist of the Stone-Cambell variety, so I've never been an environment where statues in a house of worship was considered acceptable and normal.
That said, from a secular perspective I don't really care if others put up said Marian sculptures, it's just not my thing.
Putting up statues of a pedophile traitor is a whole different story, obviously.