Are you really intending to imply that the majority of religious people would support eliminating the BSD daemon logo? Because that's obviously not true.
There are ~300MM in the US. If just 0.1% of them are nutty enough to pitch a fit over a cartoon character, that's still three hundred thousand nuts we have to deal with.
Meanwhile, the majority of US adults self-report as Christian. Most of these people are not nuts about depictions of demons, as evidenced by the fact that they aren't protesting DePaul (the largest Catholic university in the country) for naming their sports team "The Blue Demons".
I know you're a reasonable guy. I'm just trying not to have us lump hundreds of millions of Americans into the same bucket as the crazy person who can't stay in the hotel with the BSD daemon logo on it. It's an easy trap to fall into, especially in a place like HN, which suffers grievously from the base rate fallacy on this particular topic.
There are ~300MM in the US. If just 0.1% of them are nutty enough to pitch a fit over a cartoon character, that's still three hundred thousand nuts we have to deal with.
Meanwhile, the majority of US adults self-report as Christian. Most of these people are not nuts about depictions of demons, as evidenced by the fact that they aren't protesting DePaul (the largest Catholic university in the country) for naming their sports team "The Blue Demons".