When the "pope" is calling for the dismantling of all private arms ownership... You know you've lost the path
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LOL, he isn't praying to the statue, how funny! Do you know what idolatry is? Idolatry is the worship of a statue or image itself, as a god. Statues and paintings are artwork, they are dead, there is nothing in them to worship. There is no god in that statue. Why would you think there was?
Bowing or kneeling in front of something doesn't always mean you're worshiping the thing in front of you. When Sean Connery knelt before QEII to be knighted, was he worshiping her? When my students in Japan bowed to me, were they worshiping me? Catholics are taught this distinction at a very young age. Didn't anyone explain it to you?
Idolatry in any form is condemned in Catholicism. The catechism (2110-2114) says this very clearly. Anyone who suggests otherwise is mistaken and/or is seriously misrepresenting Catholic teaching.
Again, you're a pagan.
Exodus 20:4-5: 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Did the verse say "thou shalt not worship the image?" NO! It said that thou shalt not make an image OR BOW DOWN TO IT. That is worship, not "veneration."
We're condemning the veneration of images here. There's nothing wrong with honouring American heros, and there's nothing wrong with bowing to a friend out of respect. But there is a problem when you combine the two!
There is a HUGE problem when you bow down in front of the image you have built! Just like your pope!
You know what God defines as Idolatry? This is what it is defined as:
Leviticus 26:1: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
If you bow to a statue, you're in a cult. Simple. You're an ancestor worshipping pagan.