Recently I had to go down to the New Orleans area for one of my aunts funeral. This happened to be the 2nd catholic funeral I had been to in less than a year. I must say at this one I was inspired by what the minister had to say. Of course there was that thing where he prayed over and over during the mass that God would allow my aunt into Heaven. Whoa, seems a little late to be praying for that one! Those choices are made in this life; not the next. Oh, yeah, then there was the area of the sermon where he kept equating my aunts eternal well being on her being a member of the church and that she was baptized as an infant. Hmmm, I don't seem to recall that being in the Bible, but maybe I missed Sunday school that week. I guess even with those red flags thrown in play it wouldn't have been too bad except when I went to the back of the church to sign the guest register. It was there that I spied a pile of prayer cards laying there. On one side of the card was basically details of my aunts life; date of birth, how long married, number of children, grand-children, great-grand-children and such....but on the back was this. I thought I would scan it in just the way she was wrote. 
Somehow no matter how I read this thing the bottom line tells me Mary was a God. Wow, I got issues! Seems clear that as soon as a denomination mixes the Bible with their own particular favorite books like the Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses have done, you get this stuff. I mean one look at Isa. 45.5 throws the Mary thing right out the window. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. So let's suppose I promise to make you and me a nice omelet for breakfast. I start breaking eggs into a bowl until I come to the last one and its rancid. I mean it smells as bad as some of Matthew's poots. But, heck, its ONLY one egg. I toss it in, stir it all around and what do you get? A totally rotten omelet! Sure, no denomination is perfect, but certainly you can't honestly throw your allegiance in with a group with such stark contradictions of doctrine. I still got issues!
Phynerk
