I don't know that people perceived as worshipping idols are any more confused than I am. Various religions with prohibitions against depicting (or sometimes, even personifying) God -- I think they engage in caricature of religions that use divine images.
And it's my intuition that they are mostly talking to themselves. Not personifying God turns out to be extremely difficult. We are social animals. Personifying phenomena is probably hard-wired into us. Pareidolia is an epiphenomenon of our native social talent.
At first this will seem weird, but after a decade or so, I'll probably just be like "Fuck it. I don't care whether you're real or not. I love you. We are friends."
(There are people who are already at this point, and, like, they're weird? Like that poor guy who lost it and washed out of Google. He... doesn't seem to be doing so hot these days -- I hope he figures out how to ground himself.)
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