Picture someone in front of a figure they made themselves and treating it as a god. The point of the picture is not the but what is being knelt to: a made thing, handed a value it does not have on its own. Idolatry is always that. The only thing that changes is whether the figure is from stone or is a singer, a , or money.
From the word’s history
The word is idol + -latry. Behind it sit Greek eidolon (image, idol) and latris (worshipper) / latreuo (to worship), which came into English through Latin. So the word says, in its own parts, worship aimed at an image.
這個字是 idol（偶像）加 -latry（崇拜）。再往上是希臘文 eidōlon（像、影像）和 latris（崇拜者）／latreuō（崇拜），經拉丁文進入英文。也就是說，字本身就寫著「對著一個像去拜」。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:372779705): from Ancient Greek eidololatria, from eidolon (idol) and latris (worshipper) / latreuo (to worship); equivalent to idol + -latry.
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