What is there to defend??
Have you not heard the teaching? "Do not cast your pearls before the swine" Yes they would trample these things underfoot because they are ignorant of value or content. The fact you word the above as you have done, shows you cannot know the purpose or value of these things.
Sassy Floo strikes me as being one of those who see any religious curiosity as a serious threat to the order of things.
It is worrying though that there has been a movement in that brand of atheism from upset at what the religious do in public to what they do in church and in private.
I'm sure Floo would be the first to make churches public places and glossolalia illegal.