Re:  Donna's post on the apparitions of Mary:
 
This is such an interesting article you posted!  I was raised Roman Catholic, went to parochial school, but I never got saved until nearly 15 years later reading a Gideon Bible!  I always thought my salvation depended on confessing to a priest, the Mass (mass confusion!), communion (the wafer god), until I found out that there is NO purgatory, and I don't need an earthly priest to approach God!  When I was attending catholic school, we used to have these May coronations.  It involved going to a little "grotto" at the back of the school, where there was a LIFESIZE statue of "Mary" in tis little "grove" of trees.  (You know, like the GROVES that the children of Israel built during the time of AHAB when God nearly wiped them all out!??!!!)  We would gather in a circle, say the rosary and a little girl would be chosen to go up and put a wreath of flowers on "Mary's" head.  Oh, we thought it was so cute and so PIOUS!  I never even knew back then that I was in BAAL worship!  Boy, was  I ever in for an eye-opening!  Bless God, He brought me OUT of that mess!  I have often been ridiculed by (Well-meaning?) Christians for my stance against mariolotry and against purgatory.  I have been told by many of them that Catholics love Jesus too and they are going to heaven.  Well, sure they are, IF they are saved!  I never hesitate to tell them, too, that they need to come out of that SYSTEM!   But, I do not hesitate to tell the truth about this "Mary"(BAAL) that they worship. She is none other than ISHTAR or ASTEROTH from the Old Testament.  The Queen of Heaven.  God said he would NOT share His glory with another!  No one ever told us to worship His mother!  I am so happy for your article!  I believe it will bless others!!!
Rene