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Article Title:	A Donut-Shaped Hole?
Author of reported comment:	Dave Kinsella
Comment Date:	14:21 on Oct 27 2014
Comment:	Your two comments " If anyone is doubting what I say, type "early church fathers" into Google and read their writings from all the way back to 60 AD! " and " do you know what was present in early Christianity? Devotion and prayer to Mary, the Saints and Martyrs, praying for the souls of the dead (actually this was a Jewish traditions that predates Christ)" Are deceptive. Show me in the writings of the early Church before Constantine any Church Father advocating praying to Mary. Show me the Ante Nicene Church showing the same devotion to Mary that Catholics show today. Why do Catholics show so much more "devotion" to Mary than other ancient Traditions like the Eastern Orthodox, Ethiopian, or Nestorian? It's because your Tradition has evolved. It has acquired additions over the centuries. Prayers for the dead and purgatory seem to be undefined or very different from how modern Catholics do it today. I know you say that your Tradition has grown as a seed grows into a huge tree, but this is a rationalization after the fact.

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