[Serious] Over the top

[Haipule]

Maybe people have different ways to use an Internet forum. Some people want to discuss what's true. Other sites encourage a kind of unthinking consensus -- e.g. "immigrants bad!"

Sometimes I see statements that are over the top. Surely no thinking person can agree with the sentence as made? I mean, we can and should argue against falsehoods, but not by making new overgeneralized falsehoods.

Here is an example of what I'm thinking about. I've resisted the urge to clean up the English.

For religious view to be able to inform who a person is, that person must be very little and has scant hope of ever being much more.

Does anybody here really believe this? 

There have been many many people in history whose religious view is an important part of what he or she is, who is more than "very little" and has in fact developed very well, into a good and important person -- while staying religious. e.g. Isaac Newton 

Anyway, I called this statement out when it was first made, but nobody else did, and I found that a little disappointing.

As a theist here without religious views: I have rejected Christianity and theology because it's all a man made power grab from the beginning. Some are sincere but sincerely wrong. So when I read statements like that, I don't necessarily disagree. But, I hate being put into that camp just because I am a theist. I trust that there is a God and that He has revealed Himself in Scripture. Too bad nobody reads it. The English bible, all versions, has been manipulated to support theology, creeds and the Church which is not truth.