mmmm I can kinda-sorta see where people come from when they say things like "oooh I actually like paladins and you're not supposed to say that" but
"paladin" is Extremely Not a simple synonym for "morally good character", and pretending that paladins are touchy territory because people are weird about unreservedly morally good characters, even if both are somewhat true, makes people look like they're
lying, look, I could find a more diplomatic word, but lying.
Paladins, whether or not you come by them primarily via the high fantasy blorbo homogenising rock tumbler of D&D, are a martial Christianity thing and if you're not willing to even acknowledge why people miiiiight have reservations about that,
...lying