It helps to hold people accountable to what they do, instead of giving them special treatment for their beliefs.
If someone's a jerk, they're a jerk, you don't want to be in a position where you're defending a jerk because you share the same disbelief. That's like being a catholic and defending the child molestations just because they're done by catholics, too.
If someone's a jerk, they're a jerk, you don't want to be in a position where you're defending a jerk because you share the same disbelief. That's like being a catholic and defending the child molestations just because they're done by catholics, too.