Your point has been that people should not link them. My point would simply be that people link them. I'm not saying they should or should not. I'm simply putting it out there. People are affected by perception even if it's faulty. Those perceptions has impact on culture which influences how people choose to live within their take, right or wrong, on morality, be it subjective or objective or variations therein, or lack thereof to various degrees. So, it goes back to the debate of what paganism means or what it may not mean.