It was what you said about praying to the dead that fooled me.
DM:"It was what you said about praying to the dead that fooled me."
In that case, it was actually your ignorance of orthodox Christianity that fooled you. The Church has always taught that there is now life after death. In keeping with that belief is the teaching that triumphant saints can and do handle prayer requests. How those requests get delivered has not been completely revealed to us, but there is reason to believe that the messages are somehow delivered by holy angels.
We don't pray to the dead.
We pray that God may have mercy on the souls of those who have departed the life on earth, and we pray for mercy on the souls of those who are still living on earth.
We also ask the saints to pray for us, as we ask of our congregations to pray for us.
There is no death in those who are in Christ.
Your tagline speaks of the Jews whose sciptures did not reveal that. If they could have received the full truth from the OT, there would have been no need for the new one (cf Hebrews).