A Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, and an atheist walk into a coffee shop...

[Mudhammam]

Here is your statement sans parentheses:

The whole "if you're militant against religion and the bullshit its missionaries try to spin, then you must be a big meanie who doesn't see these deceived folk as people" is just dishonest trash, I'm ashamed for those, some of whom I have considered to be among the brightest members here, that seem to be falling for it.

I expected that in this case, parentheses (insert silly remark about how "not all X act as proselytizers" or "the Christians I know don't proselytize") were supposed to do the work of providing examples or clarification of the sort of statements you regard as dishonest trash, not providing example of statements that you wouldn't consider dishonest trash. What work were you actually trying to have them (the parentheses) do?

I figured that for anyone actually following the conversation and reading the other responses, the words in parentheses would be perfectly understood as the kind of remarks one would be expected to hear from others at that point in my statement.

I don't think you can dispute that you called the statement 'The Christians I know don't proselytize' a silly remark (as you did so within the same parentheses).

Aye, I did call it a silly remark.

Why don't you think it's dishonest trash as well?

I assume others know self-described "Christians" who don't proselytize.

Why did you include a statement that you don't consider dishonest trash parenthetically in a statement about what you consider to be dishonest trash in a way that doesn't make it clear that you're contrasting it with the rest of your statement?

See above. And I did "make it clear" that I was "contrasting it with the rest of the statement" ... hence, I put it in parentheses (for the 10th time), prefaced with a "insert silly remark here."