Toi: Once again, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being inspired by them, so long as you are not encouraging being like them in all other aspects. No one is praising them to elevate them, rather they are praising them to elevate themselves. Second of all, maybe there is room to be Meikel because they are not real Ovdei Avodah Zarah. Third, maybe everyone is Somech on the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Bazeh.
(Yes, this is more a Limud Z’chus on this thread than a Lechatchilah. But I think it’s a fairly good Limud Z’chus.)