Who is worshiped?

Catholics says that they worship only One God but with three person, God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. They also say that they do not worship idols, or foreign gods besides the One God with three person. They claim that they are not guilty of idolatry and they do not have any act of Idolatry.

The thing is, IS THIS TRUE?


Well, let us see...

San Augustine pueblo de lubao

San Gregorio de Magno

Our Lady of Immaculate Concepcion, Baclayon

San Pedro De Alcantara, Pakil

Church of San Bartolome

Basilica del Sto. Nino, Cebu

Baclayon Church

Sta. Ana de sapa

Thesaurus
2.altar - a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made.
source: thefreedictionary.com

Altar
noun 1. an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
source: dictionary.reference.com

I thought, only one God with three person are worshiped??? Then, who are those in the retablo? Which they kneel down and pray for when they are having worship services? Are their Saints and their God with three person are of same level, that's why they are all in the retablo?^^


Catholic Altars vs. Pagan Altars: All guilty of Idolatry
If that will be the case, what will be its difference to pagan religions in the world??? Is there any difference?

Buddhist Altar

Hindu Altar

Jain Altar

Sikh Altar



Taoist Altar



Confusian Altar



Shinto Altar

Some of these Pagan Religions claims that they are not idol worshipers like what the Catholic Church is claiming. But their action is contrary to their words, which make them GUILTY OF IDOLATRY.

As of biblical basis, God did not commanded people to make images and so on to be WORSHIPED, that is why those things were destroyed when people began worshiping it.

"You must not have any other gods except me.You must not make for yourselves an idol that looks like anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If you hate me, I will punish your children, and even your grandchildren and great-grandchildren." exo. 20:3-5

Ash wednesday

What is the history of "Ash Wednesday" then?

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"Ashes in the History of the Church

Despite all these references in Scripture, the use of ashes in the Church left only a few records in the first millennium of Church history. Thomas Talley, an expert on the history of the liturgical year, says that the first clearly datable liturgy for Ash Wednesday that provides for sprinkling ashes is in the Romano-Germanic pontifical of 960.

Before that time, ashes had been used as a sign of admission to the Order of Penitents. As early as the sixth century, the Spanish Mozarabic rite calls for signing the forehead with ashes when admitting a gravely ill person to the Order of Penitents.

At the beginning of the 11th century, Abbot Aelfric notes that it was customary for all the faithful to take part in a ceremony on the Wednesday before Lent that included the imposition of ashes. Near the end of that century, Pope Urban II called for the general use of ashes on that day.

Only later did this day come to be called Ash Wednesday. At first, clerics and men had ashes sprinkled on their heads, while women had the sign of the cross made with ashes on their foreheads. Eventually, of course, the ritual used with women came to be used for men as well.

In the 12th century the rule developed that the ashes were to be created by burning palm branches from the previous Palm Sunday. Many parishes today invite parishioners to bring such palms to church before Lent begins and have a ritual burning of the palms after Mass." source: americancatholic.org

The introduction of the Article in americancatholic.org,

"Although Ash Wednesday is not a Catholic holy day of obligation, it is an important part of the season of Lent. The first clear evidence of Ash Wednesday is around 960, and in the 12th century people began using palm branches from the previous Palm Sunday for ashes."

Clearly then, Ash wednesday is just another invented "tradition" in the Catholic Church who's claiming to be the church in the 1st century but the DOCTRINES CANNOT FIND ITS ROOTS IN THE 1st CENTURY CHURCH! Therefore, this another "TRADITION" in the Catholic Church said to be...


In answers.yahoo.com we can find the answer,

"Ash Wednesday was taken from Roman paganism, which took it from Vedic India. Ashes were called the seed of the fire god Agni, with power to forgive sins. Ashes were said to were a symbol for the purifying blood of Shiva, in which, one could bathe away sins. During Rome's New Year Feast of Atonement in March, people wore sackcloth and bathed in ashes to atone for their sins.

As the dying god of March, Mars took his worshippers sins with him into death. The carnival fell on dies martis, the Day of Mars. In English, this was Tuesday, because Mars was identified with the Saxon god Tiw. In French the carnival day was Mardi Gras, "Fat Tuesday," the day of merrymaking before Ash Wednesday."

May i remind again what was written in the bible?

“In particular, I want to urge you in the name of the lord, not to on living the aimless kind of life that pagans live. Intellectually they are in the dark, and they are estranged from the life of God, without knowledge because they have shut their hearts to it.” Eph. 4:17-18, Jerusalem bible

Warning: Dont be blinded with the CREATED traditions and PRACTICES!