Denzel Washington associates religious believers with sociopaths (and murderers)

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86. Denzel Washington's wording does not imply a mere "happens to be"...

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...relationship between atheism and sociopathy, the wording strongly implies a causal relationship -- that the character's atheism is either a symptom or cause of being a sociopath.

Did Washington say flat out that he thinks atheists lack morals and tend toward sociopathic behavior? No, not flat out. The whole point of the OP inviting people to consider those same words that Washington used, but with "Jew", "Christian", or "Muslim" substituted, is that if one of those words had been substituted for "atheist" far fewer people would be insisting that Washington's bigotry had to be unambiguously crystal clear in order to be called out as bigotry.

If my reaction to the OP had been to say not merely "Denzel Washington is stupid", but "Denzel Washington is a stupid black man" how eager would you be to leap in and defend me, to make excuses that I never said that all blacks are stupid, that I'd "merely" said that Washington is stupid and happens to be black?