Statues of Mary/Jesus are just part of gentile idolatry and don't have a proper place in judaic christianity

Its the proto-paganification of christianity

Romans 13:1 “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” may not state that we have to stautes but Authority must be shown.

Judaic Christianity

I’d agree on the Mary part

So by that logic we should just purge Christanity of the Pagan elements and restore semetic worship.

Guess you could say graven images are bad

Early Christianity was thoroughly jewish before it collided with rome and then the rest of europe and was amended over time

But would that only apply if you worship said graven images

But to defend the Christ statues, we’re told not to build idols to *other gods* or to worship other gods

This is a statue commemorating Christ, God himself

Yeah and? it was Europeanfied. Every reilgion that meets another Ethnicty mend with the local culture.

It’s not blasphemy

Right. So I'm just saying if your opposition to removing statues of jesus is religious I'd remind you there's no proper religious basis for having the statue - they are a pagan superstition

It's ambiguous whether you are even meant to observe holidays under christianity

Yes but their desecration is a slight against the creator

Again, and? Indo-European pagan supersituion and christanity blended and created what we know today.

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Well in that case I'd just say that revering a jew who epitomizes self-sacrifice without balancing influence of other gods is unhealthy

With that logic we should follow that of the Semetic verson of Christanity, Which never barely existed because Christanity of itself is considered a cult by semetic reilgions. Becuase by semetic logic how could 3 be 1.

Yeah people shouldn't be jewish christians

They should be polytheistic or pantheist ideally

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I wouldn't even say that Chrisanity is in reality, has blended with the Pagan practices of our ancestors and the worship of Christ.

Within itself it has evolved into a European Creation.

Pagan nonsense

Ahem, you know protestants have copied many tradions from those of Pagans same for Catholics and Orthodox peoples.

What

Look at the saints.

Look at the artwork that was created.

Look at the monuments and creations, it oddely correlates with pagan practices.

Yeah there's no real basis for things like relics or saints in the bible as far as I know that's all roman catholic tradition/invention

There's some jewish basis for prophets but those are rare

We don’t have saints, at least not to the degree that the Catholics have “saints”

Pagan nonsense as in the actual worship of paganism

Besides I'm Protestant

I know.

We don't do saints

We see the “saints” as great men of God but they are also on equal footing with us in terms of being a fellow man of God

Caths exalt them above the fellow man

Relics are ultra gay

But still you copied many idea's from pagan practice. Protantism also copied many things from the Catholic tradition which within itself is pagan.