Religion
In reply to the discussion: Denzel Washington associates religious believers with sociopaths (and murderers) [View all]Silent3
(15,909 posts)Or does it come to you so naturally you don't even notice it?
How a person copes with someone's bad behavior, and how bad that behavior is are TWO DIFFERENT QUESTIONS. You seem eager to avoid the latter issue.
All of your unwanted stick-and-stones advice is totally missing the point. Deciding not to let yourself get "worked up" over the prejudiced things a person says doesn't mean not having an opinion about how prejudiced those things were to say.
Whether you personally are equally blasé or equally concerned about Denzel Washington's bigoted remarks (which I rather doubt, given the suspect nature of trotting out the stick-and-stones dodge ONLY HERE), if you don't acknowledge that American society as a whole is happier to let bigotry against atheists slip by than bigotry against believers, then you're living in denial.