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Originally Posted by Brother Harold Porter
Chapter and verse please. Anything other than the Word of God is dangerous and foolish heresy...
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He'll probably offer up John 14:3, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." which, although it doesn't mention Mary at all (in fact, there's not a peep about her in the whole chapter), was offered as PROOF of the Assumption by the Pope in (get a load of this)
1950!!
It only took their "infallible" geniuses a little over 1,900 YEARS after the (alleged) incidents took place to realize that, "Hey, these simpletons have bought every line of crap we've sold them since day 1, if we add this to the pile no one's gonna notice, right? And we can milk them for even more cash, because more 'saints' and obligatory holidays (never mind the lack of Biblical justification, we can just say it's 'tradition', which we conveniently elevated to equivalence with Scripture when we had to explain another one of our seeming heresies) mean more
people paying cover charge offerings in the plate, trinkets sold to the
suckers faithful, etc., golden thrones all around, boys".