How weird; the one thing that no one ever seems to get into their heads is that God wanted people to be in relationship with him, and not to use forms and symbols. As long as one uses the forms and the symbols, one is talking to them, and not to God. But people persist in it.

It is really just like this. A small child wants their dad to fix them a swing. So they go and talk to his tool bag, and ask his tools. Does their dad:

a) Infer that he should get his child a swing and fix it up, or

b) Conclude that if he ever responds to the child when they talk to his tool bag, then he is not only encouraging the child never to know him, but also to become mentally ill?

But that's what people do; they will find any form or symbol rather than talk to God direct. The two ideas are not even remotely the same.