[1000 silverlings]

Yes, as I said, we can all come up with bad examples. Someone who follows tradition rigidly, looking neither to the right or left, and stepping over the poor whether they be people or animals, is not walking as a Christian. Performing all the rites, following all the superstitions, and looking to men for approval is not the heart of being Christian. These people have their reward in being viewed as "holy".

Now as for praying to these sorts after they are dead, and asking them to pray for you, would seem to me to be a risky business. A God instructed religion never says to do so. Only a man-made religion, and men saying to God, I choose to worship you in this fashion, as it seems good to me, does this sort of thing. In fact, it's ancestor worship, a pagan concept.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

ancestor worship, a pagan concept

Exactly!

"Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them." -- Psalm 115:4-8

[P-Marlowe]

In fact, it's ancestor worship, a pagan concept.

That's gonna leave a mark.

[Enosh]

"In fact, it's ancestor worship, a pagan concept."

Catholics do not worship ancestors or angels. When they pray to them, they are asking them relay the issue to God.

Finer point, but there it is.