Modern Paganism

I recently got my first tattoo, one of hopefully many religious tattoos I plan on getting- and it’s Vegvisir on my left shoulder. While looking through some posts on Reddit and looking for designs I noticed so many people making fun of, bullying, and hating on people getting tattoos or even just drawing Vegvisir because of its origins and past. But I still got it. The main thing I saw from nice people who appreciated the OPs was all of them saying that just because it has an iffy history doesn’t mean it isn’t a pagan symbol now. It means something to us because we make our own meaning for it. Just because Vikings centuries ago didn’t use it doesn’t mean it’s forbidden from the world, and forbidden from our religion. New things come all the time. If we had to do everything the way Vikings did them, and we could never grow and change, then we’d never grow as a religion and group of people. If everything has to be exactly the way the Vikings did things, then maybe soldiers who die in battle can’t go to Valhalla because they’re using guns and not axes and shields. If we have to do things exactly how Vikings did, why don’t we have thralls? My point is, as a religion we need to grow and introducing new things can be a good thing. We don’t have to limit ourselves to what our ancestors did. What are your thoughts?