Inventing a strained interpretation of the Bible in order to support a conclusion you’ve decided on ahead of time is sinful, and I feel would actually be seen as disrespectful by most Christians.
I don’t think it makes much sense to get too sensitive about Bible quotes; the context seems more like quoting poetry to me, along the lines of trawling Shakespeare for phrases to use as a title or chapter heading. There’s plenty of precedent for doing so, both theistic and nontheistic: so much so, actually, that I think the text of the Bible might be more important as a work of literature than it is as religious doctrine. After all, most of the points of any particular Christian denomination (even nominally fundamentalist ones) are derived not from a clear “thou shalt” but from one or two lines of the text filtered through a rather tortured process of interpretation, and there’s way more text than there is active doctrine.
This all goes double for the Old Testament, and triple for anything like Revelation that’s usually understood in allegorical terms.
I don’t think it makes much sense to get too sensitive about Bible quotes; the context seems more like quoting poetry to me, along the lines of trawling Shakespeare for phrases to use as a title or chapter heading. There’s plenty of precedent for doing so, both theistic and nontheistic: so much so, actually, that I think the text of the Bible might be more important as a work of literature than it is as religious doctrine. After all, most of the points of any particular Christian denomination (even nominally fundamentalist ones) are derived not from a clear “thou shalt” but from one or two lines of the text filtered through a rather tortured process of interpretation, and there’s way more text than there is active doctrine.
This all goes double for the Old Testament, and triple for anything like Revelation that’s usually understood in allegorical terms.