Things that are NOT avoda zara

Sam2

DY: I am very much an Avodah Zarah. There are plenty of people who worship me (I can’t decide just how not-serious I’m being here).

DY: I would not be Assur B’hana’ah. I don’t worship myself and Ain Adam Oser Davar She’Eino Shelo. So you can believe me and still enjoy my posts. You could read them to make fun of them even if they were A”Z though, so that’s fine.

DY: It wouldn’t apply to an Eved K’na’ani either, I assume. A person might have a Kinyan on the E”K but he is not fully “his” in the sense that he has absolute R’shus over him. The “human being-ness”, for lack of a better term, of the E”K still belongs to himself (on a related note, see the Sugya in Gittin about a person who is Mafkir his E”K but died before giving a Shtar Shichrur), which is why the Adon cannot permanently damage him.

See also Chullin 40a for a related topic.

42: It might not be Avodah Zarah, but I’m certain we can find a way to make it Yein Nesech. (Retroactively, obviously; we could make it Yein Nesech by, you know, being Menasech it, but where’s the fun in that?)

Sam, but according to Sefer Chassidim (198) we’d have to be Mechanne Shem.

Anyhow, to answer the question, the earth, mountains, heaven, sun and company is not, and cannot become, AZ.

First paragraph is about you, second paragraph is answering the OP. Also, Daniel lost out for being worshipped.