Yes, looks that way regardless how they tweek it to appear as if “Holy” and worthy of “veneration”..it’s not.
But then the dark side works that way as we know...twisting peoples minds to defy what their natural God given senses tells them, which they then ignore or excuse even further....layers then upon layers...year after year. Until their senses are no longer effective to discern good from evil.
God says to “bury the dead”...they dig them up.
God says not to “kneel down” to idols....they kneel.
God says it’s “an abomination”...they call it veneration.
...and the list goes on and STILL they refuse to see.
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Where does God say, “bury the dead?” Did they dig up Lazarus? Did Jesus had to crawl his way out of a burial pit?
Sure, God said not to kneel down (well, bow) to idols, but an idol is an image of a god. If it’s not a god, it’s not an idol. Hence, he instructed the Israelites to bow before the seraph, because the seraph wasn’t a god. Neither are saints. And that’s why Catholics keep track of who is known to be a saint because they want to make sure that the people they ask to join them in supplication to God are in Heaven, not Hell. Not like Saint Brittney Spears, canonized by the Church of England when she was a spokesmodel for virginity, before she turned out to be a skank.