Oooooh…I get it. It’s the atheist version of that “Hate the sin, love the sinner” thing. Caughtcha! How progressive!
The difference is that “Love the sinner, hate the sin” is usually referring to homosexuality. In that case, the ‘sin’ is a part of who they are, and something they can’t change. Religion is a belief, that can indeed be changed.
“Your sexuality is inherently sinful and wrong, but it doesn’t change my opinion of you as a person.”
vs
“I hate Christianity, but it doesn’t change my opinion of you as a person.”
Here you justify the difference between hating a religion vs hating homosexuality if one is okay and one is not. Both are bigotry.
Y’know, I debated whether I wanted to use the word hate there, but I went for it since it was an attempt to justify the people who said they did. That’s not my view though, I don’t hate Christianity, I don’t hate anything. There are negative aspects of Christianity, just like there are negative aspects of ‘black culture’. There are negative aspects of probably everything. Breadsticks, they’ve got a lot of carbs, but I don’t hate breadsticks.