Actually, on further consideration, all of the above aside, there's another reason why I believe your statement is incorrect.

You say:


Leaving aside the fact that I did not say that "Evangelical Christians would be offended at being compared to Kangaroo Bone worshipers" - indeed, I haven't the foggiest idea of what the tenets of the Kangaroo Bone religion are, and so can't say how they would be received by Evangelical Christians, the statement that one religion would be offended at being compared with another doesn't, in my mind, "disparage" either.

The basic tenet of most religions is that said particular religion is correct and divinely inspired. It follows that believers in that religion of necessity believe that "competing" religions are incorrect and thus not divinely inspired. They compare their religion with all others; it is accordingly nonsense to say they would be offended at being compared.

What they (and probably any other religion) would be offended at, is not being compared to other religions, but rather what would bother them is to have other religions considered equal to or better than theirs.

So the simple statement that religion A would be offended at being compared with religion B is in no way "disparaging" of either, and of itself is probably not even true. What devout followers of one religion might well be offended at is being unfavorably compared with another. (And who could blame them?)

Another thing that a devout believer may be offended at is the atheist who says in effect that "all" religions are the same - and that offense would be close to universal. For a believer, who (remember) believes that his religion is true and divinely inspired, and that necessarily "all other" religions are false, to be lumped in with all of other ("false") religions would be a deep insult - in his view, all religions are not "the same".

There are two main exceptions to this: One is the multi-theistic religion that admits of numerous gods; the other is the "tribal" religion that envisions itself as the only tribe which is capable of being saved and therefore their god is the only god that matters and who cares what the lesser tribes believe anyway. (Although anyone of their own tribe who dared to unfavorably compare or equate their religion with another would undoubtedly be resented or worse.)

I'm of two minds whether to push the "enter" button on this one. This post has really drifted off-topic, and while I think it has intrinsic value, it does seem out of place. On the other hand, to the extent this discusses the "metatopic" of what would be a violation of the "Offensive Language/Material" paragraph in the TOS, I suppose it's still marginally on topic.

I'll push the button, but if the moderators decide to excise this post, I'll understand. It's a close call.