You said: Prayer is a request for help OR expression of thanks to God (or an object of worship that is not God). Therefore, prayer is addressed to an object of worship — requesting help, or thanking God is still worshipping God.
Nice try. No matter how far you stretch it it is wrong.
No matter how you stretch your claim doesn’t make it right either! :D
Looks like we’ll have to just disagree.
Hoss