"Prayers in Scripture are always to God unless you are of a pagan religion."
Well, we're not pagans. And prayers to saints are something the Church has done from the beginning...again, like having bishops, from the Apostolic age if one wants to include the veneration of relics. I sincerely doubt we are wrong. If we were, well most people who are Orthodox now would long since have been Mohammedans. Our Faith sustained us through a centuries long and continuing Mohammedan oppression. If we were pagans, we'd have converted hundreds of years ago, but The Church survives. Protestantism, on the other hand, can't seem to survive the modern age.
Where is there evidence that there was prayers to saints or veneration of icons in the Apostolic age?