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>Mother of God means Jesus is God. It's more about Jesus than Mary.
Rather, that was what that declaration was intended to demonstrate. However, this has been utterly abused to the point that a "Mary" since that time has been given many other attributes those original folks never intended, such as "queen of heaven", "mother of all mercies", etc. Here is a quote:
"In the church of St. Mary of Impruneta, near Florence, there is a picture of the Virgin, which is profoundly venerated throughout Tuscany, and is carried in procession through the streets of the city, attended by the prince, the nobility, the magistrates, and the clergy, whenever any peculiar danger arises. Records, confirmed by public inscriptions, are shown to prove that each procession has been productive of benefits, one of which was the ceasing of a pestilence.Thus an inscription was set up in a church at Florence, about a century ago, in the following words:"There is no one who can be saved, O most holy Virgin, but through thee: there is no one who can be delivered from evils, but through thee: there is no one from whom we can obtain mercy, but through thee. Mary opens her bosom of mercy to all, so that the whole universe receives out of her fulness; the captive, redemption; the sick, health; the afflicted, comfort; the sinner, pardon; the just, grace; the angels, joy; the whole Trinity, glory!"
The Papacy is welcome at any time to refute those words, but that quote is from a book from the 1840's. Tell me, has the Papacy rebuked that idolatry?
>You're the only Satanist being offended at the divinity of Christ.
Now you are using that tired old method of "strawman".
>Asking her to pray for us is the same asking a friend anyone else to pray for you.
Well, no it is not (as is evident in the above quoted example). Asking a friend to pray is normally asking a person here on earth still on this plane of existence.