We actually were aware of this issue from the Palm days, and we completely understand your concern. We changed the language in the game so that they do not 'worship' this statue, but rather they now 'honor' it.

The golden child is a little magician, embued by the magical waters of the lagoon, and probably resembles a little bhuddist more than anything, but we left him very vague in terms of his religious orientation.

We wanted to include spirituality in the game as a general concept, and without a specific orientation so that nobody would feel excluded due to their own religious beliefs. I hope we've done at least a decent job of this...nevertheless the feedback is VERY welcome and definitely affects what we put into our games here.

Does that help at all?