yet Jesus said, Let the dead bury the dead. There is no scripture that ever said to pray for them. They snooze, they lose.
LOLOL!!! You get the prize for the most memorable quote.
This is some kind of obsession with death in you. The saints are not dead, if you believe the scripture already cited by me to you. Read it again:
every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting (Mt 19:29)
the only way you can remove praying for the dead from the faith would be by removing parts of the bible at whim and writing them off as not applicable today; oh wait you already do that.