[CarrotAndStick]

That's true and that's the point.

If that is the case you agree with, then there is no idolatry anywhere on earth. Even the tribal from the farthest-most corner of the earth prays to that spear of his to arouse the "spirits", not to arouse the spear itself.

[Tribune7]

If that is the case you agree with, then there is no idolatry anywhere on earth.

If in your own mind you think the object which you made has powers beyond the material, you are committing idolatry.