When you said "Apparent, meaning it has every appearance of a violation to an outside observer."
All you needed to do was ask one of us and you'd have learned that we are not praying to an idol.
How is saying that something looks, from outside appearance, like a violation of the 2nd Commandment, judging the faith that is in someone’s heart? That just doesn’t follow from the statement that I made. I’ve stated multiple times on this thread that I already know that Catholics and Orthodox don’t believe that they are committing a sin by these actions. I even said as much in very next sentence of that post!