mislead to pray to Mary and/or invoke her name, contary to the teachings of Christianity
How is it wrong to ask someone to pray for me? How is it contrary to Christianity to ask another person to pray for me or my intentions?
The purpose of prayer, in Christianity, is to directly share with God. Any other route is deception to inject a theological class (cleric, pantheon, and so on) into a religeon. Thus, Catholicism and the hierarchy of clerics and pantheon of dieties and angels and so on and so on.
In Christianity, if you pray, you pray to God. If you're praying to anyone else, you're not Christian. Thus the whole polytheism (Catholicism) vs monotheism (Christianity). Then enter idols and so on and so on... blah..blah...
so you have never asked someone to pray for you? I am not sure that is even a protestant Christian belief or doctrine. are you sure you are Christian?
I have never heard this before. where do you get the doctrine that you cannot ask someone else to pray for you? what denomination of Christianity forbids us praying for others?
You should research Christianity. One of the central themes, and why it was so hated, is that it's a "personal relationship." I'm sure you've endlessly heard that. That's because it requires no one between you and God. That means no priests, no idols, no demi-gods, no patrons, no nothing.
This is why it was pushed as a religeon of all peoples as you need only believe in your heart (in accordance with doctrine).
If any of this is new to you, you really need to begin a theological study of Christianity and put Catholicism behind you.
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