I’m not dead yet ... and I would not be ‘expected’ to field a billion requests per day and act on them. Want to make another try at justifying your poor analogy?
At least I have noticed!!
Is this a sly attempt to dis Rome's Mary about her supposed ability to...
Let's try some easy math:
There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;
If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;
that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.
Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)
...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!
The analogy is valid because there is no Scriptural prohibition against asking for prayer requests from the deceased—a practice that dates to late Judaism and is alluded to in Revelation 5, where we see the deceased elders fielding the prayers of the saints; and because Mary being deceased is with God, and God being the eternal Creator of space and time does not have a problem fielding a billion requests a day—unlike me, as I’m still catching up on the thread between moments away from work.