The second commandment doesn’t say *false gods*.
It says not to create an image or bow down to it.
The plain and simple fact is that Catholics worldwide, including the pope, bow down before graven images of Mary.
According to God, that is wrong. It is breaking the second commandment and therefore is sin.
It’s an objective fact that can be seen by anyone.
Is it now? Seems to me that for anyone to make such a charge they have to make a huge assumption by imputing motive to the person doing the bowing. Or in FR parlance: mind reading.
In any event I think this is all covered under the first commandment. My list says the second covers taking the lord's name in vain. Somewhere along the way the order and content got switched. So, unless the Catholic bowing to a statue is worshiping the material the statue is made of or deifying the individual represented, I think we're okay. Thanks though.