Reply #5: Or we could be intelligent and just understand...

[Liberal Veteran]

...that 99.9999999% of the time when people are railing against "religion" they are talking about the people who use religion as a tool of hatred, bigotry, and oppressive and not expect everyone to have to qualify every statement and couch everything in PC terms so as not to offend some thin skinned people that internalize every statement when it should be abundantly clear that no one is talking about their brand of faith in particular.

I'd bet up to 90% of the flame wars over religion would go away if people would just take it as a given that no one is talking about liberal "live and let live" people of faith when they rant.

All this need for pussyfooting around with qualifiers is just annoying.