Here's the thing, Scholairebocht: Nobody looking to join the site is going to know what that symbol even is. No normal person, anyway. It's a very, very out-of-the-way thing. It is not common knowledge, not instantly recognizable as say, something like the Swastika or the Nike swoosh, and frankly one would need to be at least slightly batshit to even be in possession of the requisite knowledge or familiarity with occultism to even be capable of identifying it at all. I wasn't familiar with it and the fact that you, Zip and Plunkett were is telling: You all know far more about the occult than I do. Or ever will.
The reason for this is that I'm not frittering away the hours of my life marinating in superstitious hocus-pocus. I'm not adrift on the transom of baseless absurdity; tumbling down some utterly insane rabbit-hole of spiritual pariedolia on a flat earth that is infested with billionaire witch-covens and demons where pixelated sigils hold mystical power, meaning. I see no magic in the world. Nobody is morphing into a goblinishly-dentitioned werebeasts rippling with string warts and oozing yellow drool at midnight. Nobody is being turned into a frog by a spell cast by a lazy-eyed two-toothed crone with a nose like a dill pickle over a cauldron of newt's eyes simmering in the woods.
It's all bullshit.
I will persist with my AV until either Declan or Anderson tells me to desist, or simply expresses an opinion that the forum is not well-served by it. I will do this because, again, zip and yourself cannot seem to grasp that is not a religious forum, and it is not within yours, zips, or my purvey to legislate content on those grounds. We are janitors. That's all.
You are free to be religious here, as is any other member, and discuss your faith in all its particularities, and at no point will I interfere with that on any level or in any way. The same can be said for Hermit or Plunkett or whatever one of them is the flat-earther, and Tiger with his faith-based origins stuff and James with his J-pilled nonsense. I don't like any of the aforementioned. I consider it all to be absolutely fucking mental if you must know. But you, and zip and everybody else mentioned will always be free to express and engage in their opinions, beliefs, and world-views without interference or censorship by myself. That's what freedom is; the right to say and think what you want whether other people agree with it or not, or whether it makes sense or not. Obviously there has to be some kind of rubicon, or line, because a total free-for-all would result in the destruction of the forum. I've said many times before, it is hard to know where the line is. For me, it's anything that puts the perpetuity of the site at risk.
Regardless, what would be far worse, to me, than a world with flat-earthers and various religious kooks, would be a world where those people were no longer allowed to exist. That would be a living death.
The symbol of Azoroth is offensive to you precisely because of your religious predilections. It is not to someone else that doesn't hold them. You are like the feminist heckler at the comedy show who rants at the comedian who tells a misogynistic joke, having laughed five minutes earlier at a fat joke, because she is not fat.
If you're so dainty that you truly can't handle an AV, petition Declan or Anderson to ask me to take it down. If they consent to your request, I will do this without any hard feelings, because the exercise has served its purpose and I simply do not care. And it's their site. Not mine.
But I won't be doing that because you or Zip wants me to.
Enjoy your day.