Perhaps not blindly. Falsely, though.
Maliciously maybe.
If we’re going to use the vision analogy, myopia might be more apposite than blindness.
That is because the near sighted cannot make fine distinctions in the things they see at any distance. And the distinctions ranging from latria/hyper-dulia/dulia are not VERY subtle, but they are somewhat subtle.
Tomorrow I will go to the doctor to ask for his help in throwing off whatever is troubling me. I will also ask God for help, and I may ask for the intercession of St. Blaise, as I have already asked for the intercession of some of my friends. Which of these requests would the Protestants consider to be worship, I wonder.
I would know that I meant quite a different thing when I spoke to God from what I meant when I spoke to my friends, here or in heaven, or to the doctor. There might not be a very clear visible difference, though I don’t kneel much either to docs or to my friends here. I don’t kneel all that much to Dominic, and have never knelt to St. Blaise.
But it’s all foolishness. Unless one’s intellectual vision is capable of a certain fineness of resolution, a certain delicacy of distinction, what Catholics say will seem to have no concrete referent.
I remember when I used to fence with the foil. At first I couldn’t see what was going on in the matches I watched. After a while I “got my eye in,” and could see and understand the course of the duel much more accurately. It’s not surprising that those whose world system which is virtually binary would not be prepared to perceive shading and gradations.