I can't excuse you for anything. If you want to unfairly displace anger from a group of people whom I don't doubt are judging and marginalizing you in your everyday life, onto a group of people online who give no appearances of this whatsoever, beyond simply disagreeing with you about completely abstract ideas,…

Yeah, that shit's been a dog whistle for about as long as I can remember...

Things tone policing includes:

Atheist before reading this, atheist after. But I appreciate the detailed response. And while I may not personally agree the conclusions here (well, actually, it's less the conclusions and more that I'm approaching it with a completely different set of premises), I find the reasoning fascinating.

Uh...I'm not sure how many Catholics you've met, but I've heard plenty of skepticism as to whether Jesus was the son of god, versus a mortal prophet, plenty of jokes about how gullible people must have been to buy into the "virgin birth".

It certainly asserts itself to be. But then, it changes whenever they want, and they do a hilariously shit job of enforcing it. Probably because they realize that's a completely losing battle. They'd run out of members. Hell, they'd run out of clergy.

1) Kill it, kill it with fire.

I literally just gave you an example that it is far from universally accepted.

but to say you can't criticize someone for being a member of a group if that group is itself fucked up seems pretty hand-wavy.

The dogma sure...then there is assuming that everyone agrees with and follows it equally (ever heard of a Cafeteria Catholic? While usually pejorative, I've also seen it used as a self identifier; means about the same thing either way), or using the actions of people belonging to one specific sect/church/etc as a…

Oh Dawkins...

Atheist PSA:

So, put 'em to the sword?

For forgiveness to even be an option to consider (not automatically granted), the homophobes need to, at a minimum:

Dildos. Lots of giant dildos. Especially in rainbow colors.

Kind of ironic how the - supposedly - most religious and faithful of people fail so utterly at basic compassion (and theology).

Go back and read the article. Your response doesn't even qualify as cherry-picking.

"but if Torii Hunter believes that his religion teaches that homosexuality is a sin and that an openly gay player would make him uncomfortable, how is that bigotry?"

Closer to "being a complete dipshit and believing in a hilariously flawed, inconsistent, and outdated form of morality that is averse to basic logic".

Moron: A person who considers tolerating another person's bigotry to be anything but self-harm.