Guest Post: Jack Seney Defends Our Blessed Mother

Periodically I sense a need to write something against common objections to Catholic Christianity. One of these is the notion that Christianity was somehow made up based on old pagan traditions. I will focus here on the absurdist claim that the Blessed Virgin Mary is but a notion derived from pagan beliefs about fertility goddesses and yada, yada, yada.

Beliefs in "fertility goddesses" have been worldwide, and found separately in cultures having no contact with each other in ancient times. This is in fact evidence FOR the Blessed Mother, in that humanity has clearly had an intrinsic belief in such a figure, but in its fallen state was either making up false, sensual goddesses to deal with this or was falling prey to demons disguised as these "goddesses."

Isn't it interesting that after Christ's Resurrection, even in the time that Christians were underground and persecuted, devotion to the "fertility goddesses" was largely dying off, and the veneration of Mary was already beginning.

Isn't it interesting that Mary quite naturally replaced mankind's "fertility goddesses" and that Catholicism, miraculously rising from its persecuted underground, became a world-wide force for good, in fact establishing the groundwork of the very civilization that the whole world now reaps benefits from.

Only in India and Hinduism are "fertility goddesses" still worshipped to any extent. But Hinduism, for all its problems, is highly intelligent and not by any means just about pagan mythologizing. It is also so varied and diverse that it can barely even be called a religion. And India is the same place that needed the Catholic, Mary-venerating Saint Mother Teresa to give it an example of how to help its literally starving poor.

Do today's critics of Mary really think that in ancient times there was no one to raise their "issues?" That everyone was mentally blank to the point that they could not raise these objections against Christians ages ago?

The Biblical Gospels and Acts of the Apostles themselves honestly show Christ's earthly parentage being sniffed at by the Pharisees, with Mary the obvious object of this insult even then. Saint Paul is seen being challenged in debate by pagans, so it is obvious that all sorts of challenges were being made against the Church from the beginning. Paul stood against them successfully with doctrinal Catholic belief.

Therefore no one "needs" modernist critics repeatedly shouting their falsities against Mary, as these objections were all shouted, and discarded as useless, about 2000 years ago, even in the times that Christians were made to live underground for knowing about the Resurrection and refusing to renounce this.

The Blessed Mother Mary was and is real and on top of the obvious evidence that naturally silenced her critics millennia ago, many of us have the evidence of miraculous occurrences in our personal lives to attest to her now.

No one is going to run their mouth against the Blessed Mother around me without me responding to it firmly. I am a horror and trash movie fan and widespread reader who has all sorts of weirdo friends into all sorts of bizarre "beliefs." But none of them may say a word against the Blessed Mother without getting a sound answer from me, every time.