Birdie@ God says not to pray to idols. This is reasonable. Would you like it if someone never talked to you but only talked to your picture or image? Could that person be your true friend? No, he could not. Jehovah wants people to talk to him, not to a statue or a picture, which has no life.—Exodus 20:4, 5.
Where I go to worship there are NO idols, No cruxifices, No pictures of either Jesus, Mary or the apostles. I and my fellow believers, do NOT bow down or pray to any of these.