Why don't protestants bless Mary?

[Jipsah]

Do you mean that they don't speak of her in exactly that stilted way -- "Blessed Virgin Mary?"

No,because they're at pains to insist that being the God Bearer was Nothing Special, and even going so far as to she only carried the physical part of Jesus, which is simply heretical.

I must have missed the part where you showed that they "disrespect" the BVM.

I'd submit that you haven't been paying attention.

So far, all I see is not using the word "Blessed" enough.

It's like saying, "Why do Catholics disrespect Christ by never taking their coats off when attending Mass and running for the exits at the Last Gospel?"

I thought that was Baptists sprinting for their cars so as to get to the restaurant before the Pentecostalists get all the good tables.

 

[Jipsah]

I can't talk for anyone else, and won't even dare try to speak for the Church of England as a whole, but the Blessed Virgin Mary (as the Anglican churches I have attended all referred to her) is looked upon with great respect, and certainly never has she been treated as a Christmas novelty.

I agree. I'm technically C of E, but I consider myself Anglo-Catholic. But I find it common for "evangelical protestants" to maintain that the BVM was nothing special, and that she bore only our Lord's physical body, and thus had done nothing special at all. At the very base, that demonstrates a complete lack of underdtanding of the Incarnation.

There are some who do not view the Holy Mother in such a light, that is true, but outright disrespect? Each I've met has always called Mary Blessed, none have stated her as being a convenient womb and nothing more. Am I such an ostrich that I've never witnessed any Christian who does not respect Mary for the role she played in our faith?

No, it's just that we Anglicans still embrace most orthodox beliefs that most "modern" Protestants seem to have discarded.

 

[Jipsah]

This is the reason why. Protestants mean no disrespect to Mary - but God said He will not give His glory to another.

Hmmm... Do you call your male progenitor "father"? And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Oh, but That's Different, innit?