First-off;
A 'god', by definittion, is a supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. (
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A saint, by definition, is a person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth. (
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Catholics pray to these saints for certain specific things (ie strength, both mental and physical)
If not for saints, then they pray to the Angels, Archangels, Jesus Christ andor the Virgin Mary.
Would you consider it fair to say that saints, as well as the rest of the godly hierarchy, are basically a personification of a force?
Secondly;
Exodus, Chapter 20;
'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
Go into any church and let me know if there isn't at least one person making the sign or the cross in front of a statue, painting or row of candles. All of which were made in to represent God.