You still don't get it, apparently.
No.
Too many religions, in fact too many things in general are dumbed down for the braindead postmodernist proles already. You lose gravitas and moral legitimacy when you do crap like that.
The answer is no. No no and thrice no.
To someone like that
Someone like that is welcome to go listen to the saxophone and hold hands in an Episcopal "church" with the rest of the theological illiterates.
They do, though.
They really don't, and they originated a thousand years before the English semantic terms you're trying to use to parse them out ever existed.
It most definitely implies that she has rulership over heaven
No, that's just speaking from ignorance again.
but they definitely imply that Mary was somehow before God
They imply no such thing. You might infer that, but that would be ignorance of the theology we're talking about in the first place.
"I dedicate my heart and deeds to you."
I've been a practicing Catholic for four decades and I have literally never heard that spoken aloud in my lifetime.
If I went up to my friend (or even a priest)
As opposed to the Mother of Christ?
You don't think a little old timey ritualized speech is warranted there?
Nevermind that the vast, vast majority of the nonsense people quote here in their claims is not at all part of say, the Rosary, or any Catholic act of prayer or intercession. Half of it is deliberate mistranslation and the rest is lies. Par for the course when dealing with anyone quoting the King James (heavily revised)Bible.
But you're asking a favor of the Holy Mother for crying out loud. It's not out of line to show a little respect.
As for the saints, which is what I was talking about to begin with, are you seriously about to tell me that saying "Saint Stephen, pray for us sinners" or any variation thereof is out of line?
extra step
Nobody said this.
Have you never had anyone else say they'll pray for you? Have you never heard of the concept of say, praying as a group? That whole church thing is kind of based around the concept after all.
If your take on this is accurate then why pray at all I suppose, if it's a foregone conclusion?
Or, hear me out, perhaps it isn't unreasonable to ask the honored dead in Heaven to look out for you too.
It's not a baffling claim, it's a common protestant refrain against Catholics going back centuries. They view veneration of saints and the Virgin Mother as idolatry.
That's the claim anyway. In reality it's just another Reformation Wars post facto trope used to justify sectarianism. I don't know of any sect that actually believes this outside of Orthodox denominations(who themselves are just a different flavor of Catholic), but that's part and parcel of their own theological austerity.
In reality if you believe that there even can be such a thing as a saint, or that Mary was a real person(and if you don't you aren't a Christian anyway), then the logical progression is that they are closer to God than you are, and thus asking them for intercession and advocacy for you makes sense.
I noticed, I'm the one banning the pedo pajeet from gaming half the time.
I also noticed that he farms upvotes there from them often. All of his accounts rack up karma there and inexplicably out of every community on this site, only they upvote him. Everyone else bans him instantly, except them.
I also noticed that there's more than a few users who aren't him, who are self described "hebes".
My plan is to click a stopwatch and see if he makes it under an hour. He got a perma from c/gaming because he literally refused to actually talk about video games. Outright refused to stop using my sub as a vehicle to launder his pet peeves.
His monomania won't let him even act normal. At best he's incurably deranged, at worst he's a paid shill with at least a half dozen alts. Eventually he'll do something to get permanently banned from TD and he'll be left screeching in his own subs or that migtow pedo den.
Crap like revising perfectly reasonable doctrine under the bad faith premise that idiots might misunderstand it.
You remind me of all those leftoids trying to get people to disavow imaginary nazis, constantly pretending to hear "dog whistles" everywhere they go that have not one thing to do with what anyone else in the room means or says.
Then you don't understand the concept of idolatry either I suppose. Next you'll tell me that word appears somewhere in the Bible despite having been invented in the 1300s.