I'm not aware of believers praying to flowers or weddings or relying upon them for answered prayers or salvation in the manner Roman Catholics do with Mary.
This sounds like a Tim Staples argument. And it fails on every level.
Come on, Mrs-D....you can do better than Tim Staples!
I don’t even know who Tim Staples is.
Nobody (except a handful of people here at FR, it seems) thinks that flowers, and elaborate ornamentation, and the kind of ceremonial observances used at Wedding and Funeral and Military - Patriotic memorials, is the same as adoration. These thing are, rather, in line with the Greek word “Dulia “ which means honor.
We all understand that there are levels of honor, some sacred, some secular, some more solemn, some more casual. They are not all identical, but they are all in the same ball park.
We who are members of the Body of Christ are members of one another; and, like any living organism, we communicate continuously. We share spiritual goods. That is an aspect of our love for each other, in Christ, which is expressed in prayer.
Now I could understand it if you said you don’t actually believe in that “members of one body” stuff, but even if you don’t, the idea should not be that difficult to grasp.
Neither is it pitiful. All if this dulia, both sacred and secular-— expresses some precious aspects of our spiritual bonds of respect snd affection with one another.
If you think that is pitiful, I don’t understand you.