Do you really think thosse people are really praying TO THE STATUES!?
Do you even know what "idol worship" means?!
Ever see pictures of the North Koreans bowing down to that statue of Kim...I used to think it was a kind of respect thing until I saw a special where an eye doctor had gone in to do surgery on over 1000 people. Everyone of them, after tha bandages came off screamed “Oh thank you great Leader Kim who gave us back our vision” Some of them were so boisterous about it I thought I was watching a holy roller service. One lady boasted that she would see to it that her children and her childrens’ children would always be reminded of the miracle the Geat Leader did for her eyes! It was sickening, and I realized then that NK has become one giant cult and that the pictured folks in front of the statue were actually worshiping and praying to it. Shades of the coming Image of the Beast that will actually be empowered by the false prophet to speak blasphemies.
Those folks in front of the Catholic statues weren’t necesarily praying to the statues, they were praying to the personages representing those statues...or at least to the mental/spiritual constructs these folks held of the personages representing those statues. To actually bow the head and knee even in veneration or respect of these things is blasphemous. Even the angels told folks they were visiting in the Bible not to bow; that angels were not God.