"Would the Apostle Paul himself be in favor of people venerating his casket? Answer: NO!"
Wow!
How amazing that you have a direct pipeline to St.Paul.
Are you channeling him after a seance or something like that?
Aside from that, I have trouble understanding why folks who are not really Christian feel compelled to criticize traditional Christian practices.
No need to channel him, just read his epistles; he rebuked those who attempted to venerate him and Apollos when he was alive, so I'm sure that he would be doubly offended now that he is dead.
We have his inspired writings from Romans through Philemon and not once did he suggest that people venerate him or any of the other Apostles. Veneration was reserved only for God and God alone.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. (1 Corinthians 3:5-7 KJV)
Paul was simply God's reluctant servant. While we can admire him for his committment to Christ, to venerate him is, to attach some deep spiritual significance to his rotting corpse is, IMHO, to bring him to shame.