Attempt to show my stance

Smart Bitches, a romance novel blog I frequently visit recently asked after "twilight" and the popularisation of Vampires as romantic objects, what next? will it be werewolves? Fairies? or Angels? Here I had a minor inconvience.

Right now in my books I am writing about human beings with wings. As said in a previous post, I am not trying to show these beings as "angels" being a Christian myself I find it rather awkward (to write about a romantic story, when I believe these things exist, would be like going up to a friend and saying I had written a story about me getting off with them and I wanted them to read it XD) however I can't say that angelic "art" and the mythology of sort of "guardian angels" hasn't influence my writing. Therefore I sought to name my "angelic" characters after something that is winged but not an angel (up to now with no other name I had called them Seraphim, but then I felt weird about that) and came across this point:

Practically every which way we turn today, we are confronted with pictures, small and sometimes large statues of winged angels, female angels (often very sensually displayed), as well as winged child angels. These images of “angels” have been around for a long time, and many Christians purchase them and display them without knowledge of their true source or implications.

We need to note that the scriptures no where speak of angels such as are being depicted, so we wonder where does all this fascination with such ornaments come from? Much of this evidently has more to do with the graven images of winged gods and goddesses of the heathen religions than the Bible.

The exaltation of the supposed “innocence” of childhood is also a concept taken from heathen religions. The fallen human flesh often confuses adoration and worship of the creation with spirituality due to the emotionalism that is often attached with the carnal aspects of idolatry, which emotionalism is many times confused with “the spirit of God.” Today “New Age” paganism appears to be behind this increase of idolatry in this connection, for many Christians have not studied the Bible well enough to realize that these “angelic” works of men’s hands are actually idols.

Pagans often use the Bible to their advantage, so as to promote their pagan philosophies and idolatries, and many professed Christians seem to fall for their deceptions very easily.

While this is very fundamental, it raises some intresting issues. What do we as people regard as "angels" or "angelic" has a sort of mythology risen up around angels, that these women (and I to some extent) are using in our books but has nothing to do with the bible?

In my case I am going to make sure that my characters have more in common with birds, then with angels and make sure my story has more in common with Norse Myth then any biblical refrences.