If Jesus is just an abstract object in your life, then you've got BIG problems....

"The problem is that Catholics and Protestants have the bad habit of turning the object of their worship into an abstract object, and an abstraction has no need of a mother." Father Karl Rahner, SJ.....This was the question posed to him in 1972, when asked why Marian devotion was on the decline. And he's 100% correct. If Jesus Christ is an abstraction, He's just a concept in your mind. Not really "real". He is just a vague idea of God, not a real entity. When Jesus becomes that, Mary disappears as well. And sin is no big deal if your God is just an idea or abstraction. Why have Her around, if Jesus is "just some guy from a long time ago"?? When Mary goes, authentic belief in Her Divine Son is soon to follow. Eliminate Mary and the idea of the virgin birth will soon be just a myth - there goes Jesus and His Divinity. So you see, Mary's importance to the Divine can never be minimized at all - lest we LOSE our faith in He Who Is...............Satan wins when Mary is buried and hidden. Remember that.