Well, on reflection, I suppose an ill judged salute blends in nicely with the sanctimonious ethos of thinking your imaginary friend loves you, that you will be saved and people who poke fun at your superstitions are below contempt...

Doing a salute that has been hijacked (along with the swastika) by a thug regime may be alright in principle, as you can demonstrate it predates the Nazi creatures, but if you have to explain something in order for people not to jump to the wrong conclusion, then maybe it just isn't worth doing in the first place?

(Steamin' Willie's missus is into bell ringing. A couple of the ringers at the local bell tower are gay, yet the bloke with the dog collar reckons such people are the spawn of the devil... as none of the ringers go to church, the idiot doesn't know that his bells are being rung by gay dudes.

To celebrate their civil partnership, they rang a quarter peel (almost an hour of noise) to celebrate and the idiot asked what was the occasion. A wedding, they said. Excellent, said the idiot.)

Sometimes, you have to abuse a church in order to get any entertainment out of it...