[Tribune7]

I don't think any one who prays to a block of carved stone or wood fragments to begin with, does so in any other way, Catholics or otherwise.

That's true and that's the point.

If in your mind you are praying to a block of carved stone or wood fragments, you are committing idolatry.

[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.