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Mary Mother of God or Mother Goddess?
This longer article explores the arguments Protestants and Atheists make against the Catholic devotion to Mary. Is the Catholic understanding simply a form of ancient paganism warmed up and brought into the Christian faith as a corruption or is there a simpler answer?
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