[Invincibly Ignorant]

In direct response to your comment about statues and pictures of Christ, they aren't worshiped, though certainly a degree of reverence is shown to them, but we don't mistake them for God. If someone is worshiping a statue of Christ as Christ, then they are mistaken and have a misformed faith. That of course is a fault of their teachers and priests and should be corrected.

The Israelites didn't mistake the Golden Calf for God either. They had planned a feast to the LORD the following day.

Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

Aaron and others still knew who the Lord was. Because some of the mixed multitude that accompanied them out of Egypt believed otherwise it messed it up for the entire nation.

[dangus]

>>The Israelites didn't mistake the Golden Calf for God either.>>

Exactly. They knew they were explicitly turning away from God, opposing his will and seeking another god in his place. This is why the prohibition is against worshipping graven (better translation: molten) gods.

Catholics do not worship images, ascribe to them independent powers, or seek them to circumvent God's will.