The Intercession of Mary and The Saints

C'mon man. I don't buy that junk you Catholics say about saints or Mary in heaven, or their intercession. How can you think that some dead woman can intercede for you?

    First, let me put aside your crude reference to a canonized saint who has been honored by The Church, solely because of her heroic Christian virtue and charity - which you seem to lack and would deny. And lets forget for a moment that the Bible clearly refers to several, once-living people who are in heaven with God - saints, in other words.
    Instead, let me ask you some questions.

- Do you believe that human beings possess souls?
- Do you believe that human souls are immortal by their very nature?
- And if you believe in the future life of the immortal soul,... for instance, YOURS, ... do you think that, "some dead woman" is a sufficient description of a departed believer in Christ?
- Would you demand that YOU be referred to as, "just some dead dude?"
 - At the funeral of a departed loved one, do you do, or say things like...

"He is in heaven now..."
"He lived the virtuous life..."
Do you pray, "May he rest in peace with the Lord"...?
Do you give him a special place where the remains may be kept, visited, and cared for...?
Do you speak as though he can hear you....?
Do you claim that he may be looking down upon his loved ones...?
Or, do you imagine that he will be waiting for those still living, to greet them at their own death...?
Do you, or others, "visit him" later, maybe for years, and speak as though he can hear...?

    If you can answer, "Yes," to any of these, then you must admit your belief that the soul is able to attain to God after death. If that is the case, then it is the height of hypocrisy to say that, though they were virtuous and prayed for their friends on earth - these people are less capable of such prayer, or less willing to pray for others still in this world, because they are now, "just dead guys?"

    To bring this home to yourself in a meaningful way, if your mother died - would she be merely, "some dead woman" to you?
    And if you believed,..."her soul was in a better place," or with God, would you then like to think she retained a keen interst in you, and that she might plead with God that the child she brought forth into this world might also attain heavenly happiness with her?
    Would you object to this intercession of, "some dead woman" for you?
    If not, then you must rectify your loathful ideas about saints, or even Mary, and admit the reasonableness of the Catholic doctrine that there are saints with God who can intercede for us who are still in this world.


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