another way to look at it is that i could say that i'm in favour of co-opting religious iconography and redeploying it for use in a secular context, as a clear attempt to defang the religious ideology. taking things away from religion and assigning them to atheism instead is a good idea, not a bad one.

and, i don't understand why you'd think i'd stand with you as you stand up for the sanctity of the religion, in the face of expanding secularist co-option. that would essentially make you a reactionary, in my opinion.