A while back there used to be a Numenist blog called Numenous Thoughts.  Among its ruminations:  a meditation on religious jewelry and how to respond to critical inquiries from Christians.  Excerpts below:

From time to time, the question of religious jewelry comes up. Pagans are quite fond of wearing jewelry, and it's not uncommon to see a Pagan wearing multiple rings and necklaces. . . .

There are several reactions others have to Pagan jewelry. . . . The hostile person (generally, but not always, a Christian), will ask with clearly faked interest. You can tell they are asking just so they can use it to insult the wearer, coerce them into listening to some religious spiel, or threaten them with dire hints of a dreadful afterlife.

I've heard from younger people how they get followed and called names in loud voices, and Christian conversion pamphlets (like this Jack Chick tracts) shoved in their pockets, desks, or under their dorm doors, and even get rocks thrown at them.

Not all of these younger people were wearing the common Pagan jewelry: pentagrams and ankhs. Some were wearing less well known jewelry: the scarab, a "medieval princess" ring, a spider ring, a garnet cabuchon ring, a gold aspen leaf skeleton.

The problem seems to be (at least here among the more radical young Christian adherents) that any jewelry that isn't a crucifix or cross is automatically Satanic jewelry. And some of these young people are fanatic enough to be pushy and rude about their assumptions.

You know, sometimes jewelry is just that - jewelry.

And even if it is a symbol of one's religion or religious beliefs, is that really any concern of someone not of that particular religion? Is wearing a scarab any more or less objectionable than wearing a symbol of an implement of ancient torture?