re: Once again...before I am banned...happy feast day of the Immaculate Conception!

I used to be told that the Virgin Mary was worship by the Catholics. I replied that Catholics don't worship her they hold her to the highest esteem. I was also told that the Catholic's religion was a pagan one since we worship statues. I told the people who actually told me that crap that they don't worship statues they simply ask the person that the statues represent to grant them favors.Why argue with a person about religion when you believe GOD? My dad told me never to discuss three things with a person and the three things are politics,sex and religion.