Legally, James 1, was Protestant. However, his wife was thoroughly Catholic, such that he constructed and staffed a Catholic chapel for her in Whitehall Palace. His personal religious views, at best, were ambiguous, but very likely were Catholic."Within Catholicism and similar organizations Mary appears to be an integral part of their liturgy while seemingly to be raising her to a level of a fourth member of the Christian hierarchy."
That is false. False and nonsensical, as a description of Catholicism, and equally false and nonsensical as a description of the other ancient Churches not in communion with Rome. In no sense is she a Divine Person, so it is false to imply that she is, somehow, a Person of the Holy Trinity. One should not have to waste time refuting such puerile drivel. She is certainly present in the Liturgy - that is no reason to think of her as anything more than a creature of God: which is what she is. She is a Saint - nothing more.
It is the United States - not Orthodox Christians, not the ancient non-Chalcedonian Churches, & not the Churches in communion with Rome - that has a painting of "The Apotheōsis of Washington". Apotheōsis means "deification". So by the normal logic of Catholic-bashing Fundamentalists, that has to mean that the USA regards a somewhat questionable American rebel & politician, "the father of his country", one of the so-called "founding fathers", is regarded in the US as a deity.
Article, with pictures, of The Apotheosis of Washington here: The Apotheosis of Washington - Wikipedia
There is in London a painting of "The Apotheosis of James I" - appropriate, given his description of kings as "little gods". But because he was a Protestant, and not a Catholic, Catholic-bashing Fundamentalists ignore such language.
The picture can be found here: RCIN 408414 - The Apotheosis of James I
The concept of the apotheosis of a human being was popular at a time of renewed interest in Classical mythology. It was hardly unusual to depict apotheoses of Classicial individuals such Hercules or Voltaire, or contemporary individuals. Here is the Apotheosis of Voltaire (a French Catholic individual).
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