[caww]

....." I am saying a prayer THROUGH the person whom the statue represents".......

These pagan worshippers do likewise through their relics/idols...this is idoltry....so the difference is?

And Israel did as well....until God made it clear they were not to worship him the way the pagans do, not to make idols, or bow to them...rather to destroy them

[Resettozero]

Never could tell if buddha was a guy or a flat-chested gal.