[jo kus]

The idea of "praying to the dead", or even "praying for the dead" is foreign to the Scriptures, also... But, both are an integral part of Roman Catholic dogma

It certainly is not "foreign" to Scriptures, nor is it foreign to the practice of Christians of 100 AD. Are you suggesting that the Christians of 100 AD were not aware of what the Apostles taught? That less than 80 years after Christ's death, the entire Church went into an apostasy, teaching heresy, without ONE utterance of dissent for the "true" faith, while simultaneously, dying in droves for the faith that they apostasized against???

Have you really given any thought to how ridiculous that sounds?

[politicallyincarrect]

>>It certainly is not "foreign" to Scriptures, nor is it foreign to the practice of Christians of 100 AD. Are you suggesting that the Christians of 100 AD were not aware of what the Apostles taught? That less than 80 years after >>Christ's death, the entire Church went into an apostasy, teaching heresy, without ONE utterance of dissent for the "true" faith, while simultaneously, dying in droves for the faith that they apostasized against???

Have you really given any thought to how ridiculous that sounds?<<

With all due respect... Your post makes a "ridiculous" argument against the fact that nowhere in Scripture are we ever told to "pray to the dead", or to "pray for the dead"... Scriptural prayer is TO God, and FOR and BY the living...

I challenge you to respond with Scriptural opposition to what I've just said... If you think that some exists...