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Speaking through meditation or prayer to a dead holy person to ask for their favor in a particular matter is not significantly different from this practice.
With just your description of this Hindu practice, I'm going to have to disagree with you here. It sound as if these lesser Hindu gods are still gods and thus have their own power. But there's nothing magical about the saints -- they have no "power," so to speak, independent of God granting their prayers.
The idea that other spiritual beings are more capable of attaining the favor of God than your direct prayer leads me to disagree with you. Their use infers they have greater chance of bending the ear of God than you. Unless of course you would put their use on the same plane as that of asking your friend to pray for you, which conveys the idea that wishes are granted democratically rather than based on merit. Otherwise their use would be meaningless and perhaps even insulting to a God who would presumably prefer the more personal arrangement.
I also disagree with the idea that God is the only spiritual body which can act meaningfully in accordance with Catholic teachings. Angels, assuredly, can act independently of God and in fact counter to the will of God (Satan being the prime example, along with his minions/demons/anti-saints/etc.). The mere fact that a saint could catch the ear of God for you suggests that they can act independently. As long as they can act independently, the fact that they are not powerful enough to grant miracles directly is irrelevant.
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Sounds like you're defining impersonal as 'mean' whereas I am defining it as 'having direct access to'. While the God of Catholic faith is certainly accessible to the individual, a general practice is to get God's attention through a third party spiritual being.
I don't mean "mean" at all. Rather, <b>I mean that Allah's involvement with humanity is no where near as intimate as that of the Christian God</b>. I'll acknowledge your point about a third party intercessor, but I'd argue that the practice doesn't make God impersonal; and if any Catholic is so caught up in superstition that he's forsaking a relationship with God for favor with the saints, I'd argue that he's not truly practicing the faith.
Allah and God both destroy and create life, grant wishes/prayers, etc. How would you objectively justify the statement that Allah's involvement with humanity is less intimate?