Originally Posted by DMcFadden

I cannot disagree with the charge of idolatry (after all, doesn't just about every sin reduce to idolatry in the end?), and voted "yes" in conformity to the Reformed confessional affirmations. However, I doubt that the average Catholic sees their sacramental observance as anything other than the worship of the triune God in a way that has historical continuity with the church all the way back to the first century. Wrong? Absoloutely!

My personal preference for describing the mass is to call it the rankest form of blasphemy in that it denies the finished work of Christ, subjecting him (in their view) to a continual sacrifice and so blaspheming Christ and his atonement. Idolatry is such a general evil, encompassing practically any turning from God for any reason, blasphemy describes a bit more specifically the problem IMO.