09-15-2006, 02:51 PM
Bismillah
I think that I am more than qualified in speaking about Catholics because I used to be one. I went to twelve years of private Catholic school. My family is Catholic so I would not call myself "anti-Catholic."
In Cathlocism, saints are used an intermediaries to the intermediary (Jesus). People go on pilgrimages to the graves of saints. There are medallion, pictures, and prays to these saints. It is not called polytheism by them but when one devotes actions of worshp to more than one, then it is polytheism. If that is not polytheism, then what is polytheism in practice?
Love thy enemy, feed the poor, meekness is valued... sounds very similar to many eastern religions that are much older than Christianity.