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[–] ardvarcus ago 

I welcome the rise of Mary, Mother of God, in Christianity. The reason Mary is being granted such holiness in Catholicism and in various branches of Protestantism is because she fills a gap in Christian theology. There has always been a need for a divine mother goddess in Christianity, and for centuries Christians theologeans have denied this need and rejected it. Holy Spirit was steadfastly said by them to be sexless -- not female, but a kind of amorphous genderless presence. There was God the Father, and God the Son, but no God the Mother.

Mary is God the Mother, which is why she has been embraced and exalted by Hispanic Catholics. She was never forgotten in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Her icons are everywhere. But Rome and its hierarchy of male priests rejected her until relatively recently. Part of the reason was that the Gnostics recognized a goddess principle in the highest expressions of God, and in rejecting all things Gnostic the Church Fathers also rejected a mother-goddess figure. Sophia and Barbelo were thrown into the trash by the bishops, leaving them with ... nothing ... a huge gap in their theology that needs a mother goddess to fill it. Hence, Mary, who rounds out the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Mother.