[CommerceComet]

I know you know the Catholic justification, but you have chosen to set that aside, ignore the fact that God did not choose to prohibit what you want prohibited, and declare your thesis authoritative in contravention of the Commandment against taking the Name of the Lord in vain.

You should review the rules for the religion forum. This statement could be construed as a violation of several of them. What you have presented is not a refutation of Daniel1212's position but instead a thinly-veiled personal attack.

[daniel1212]

You should review the rules for the religion forum. This statement could be construed as a violation of several of them. What you have presented is not a refutation of Daniel1212's position but instead a thinly-veiled personal attack.

I see no violation of any such rules, but what is worse is the premise that a basic common practice can be justified despite the inexplicable utter absence of any record of such in the totality of Scripture, and teaching to the contrary of created beings being the object of prayer to Heaven. Might as well argue that anything can be justified as a common basic practice unless it is explicitly condemned.