Stop making me defend Religion. I don’t like doing it, but you’re making a very silly comparison.
It isn’t that silly. Some people take their love of the Star Wars prequels very seriously and treat it almost like a religion. I find religion to often be extremely offensive, but I’m expected to treat it with kid gloves.
I think it’s because religion’s usually the main thing that motivates a person to get through life at the angle they’re going.
And more than that? It’s a relationship that gets built based on trust and hope and reasonable understanding of what seems to be and what seems to makes sense.
So cutting it up fine in front of a believer is sort of like walking in and telling them they sure picked a lousy spouse. I mean it’s a personal relationship that’s very meaningful. It’s basically the answer that seems most strong after a lifetime of getting to that point. So going in and treating it like nonsense without a care is really sort of raw rub.