Your roommate doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. Zero percent of what he said was true. He’s stupid. You’ll be fine.
You have a constitutional right to display religious iconography of your own so long as anyone else in your town has the same right to display their iconography under the same conditions. The entire point of the First Amendment is to avoid tyranny by the majority and tyranny by religious institution.
You can’t be lawfully arrested for a statue, even if other people don’t like it.
