Traditionalist Conservative Hellas wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:It's not worship at all, and that's how I know you're not Orthodox, because an Orthodox person would have been corrected by their priest or other parishioners on such an obvious point.
First of all, why do you insist i'm not an Orthodox? If i was not i would have told you..
Second of all, what are these old ladies doing to my nearest church every sunday bowing down to the painting of Mary with baby Christ in her hand?
They are sending their respect to Christ and the Theotokos through a medium. Think of it like mailing someone money in an envelope. You wouldn't say you gave the envelope money.
I insist you're not Orthodox because the views you express have been anethemized.