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Jeremiah 7:18
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to The Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 44:17-22
17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto The Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18But since we left off to burn incense to The Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
20Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
21The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
22So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Originally posted by TheRandom1
Let it be known though that I don't hate Catholic people, I just know that what they've been told to believe is wrong though.
Lilith is also known as being a succubus and a vampire, she is supposedly the mother of vampires, but that is a topic for a different thread.
The goddess, the Queen of heaven whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been possibly Astarte. Astarte is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts. Another transliteration is ‘Ashtart; other names for the goddess include Hebrew עשתרת (transliterated Ashtoreth), Ugaritic ‘ṯtrt (also ‘Aṯtart or ‘Athtart, transliterated Atirat), Akkadian DAs-tar-tú (also Astartu) and Etruscan Uni-Astre (Pyrgi Tablets).
Originally posted by Demandred
i was born, raised and educated catholic, and i can honestly say ive never heard the term queen of heaven applied to Mary
jeremiah was mostly about idolatory and if i remember correctly was supposed to have been a prophet of the old testament which was before Mary was even born.
The goddess, the Queen of heaven whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been possibly Astarte. Astarte is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts. Another transliteration is ‘Ashtart; other names for the goddess include Hebrew עשתרת (transliterated Ashtoreth), Ugaritic ‘ṯtrt (also ‘Aṯtart or ‘Athtart, transliterated Atirat), Akkadian DAs-tar-tú (also Astartu) and Etruscan Uni-Astre (Pyrgi Tablets).
Originally posted by TheRandom1
Well, if you look back into ancient history, there are these "Mother Goddesses" that are worshipped, the oldest recorded, LILITH.
So what I have seen according to my research and locoman8's research, it may very well be that Simon the Sorcerer twisted in this ancient cult into his own church, the Catholic church.
Originally posted by TheRandom1
"971. "'All generations will call me blessed': 'The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.' [Lk 1:48 ; Paul VI, MC 56.] The Church rightly honors 'the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of 'Mother of God,' to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs.... "
That, is blasphemy, that IS worship and it is wrong!
Originally posted by Byrd
There's no evidence that Simon was real.
en.wikipedia.org...
Had the cult based on him been the foundation of Catholicism (unlikely since it was flourishing at the same time as the early Catholic church and there's no evidence they were invited to the meetings of the pope and bishops), you'd have a two part god (Zeus and Athena/Simon and Helena).
en.wikipedia.org...