It uses figurative language instead of the literal meaning of words so it’s complete nonsense.

Those words are already lost.

“Heaven” originally meant “the visible sky” so this is fine.

This guy is trying to mop up the beach every time the tide comes in.

Heaven forbid someone use a colloquialism! How will they ever be understood?

(For the sake of clarity I feel I must point out that I do not believe Heaven should, in fact, forbid such a practice. I fear without this clarification my first sentence is impossible to understand.)

Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don’t feel it’s important to alter keys at their whim?

That would be the equivalent of a writer inserting bacon random words.

The musical equivalent would be a musician making a deliberate choice to alter the performance because they like how it changes the piece. I would be perfectly fine with that.

A writer once put the letter ‘s’ in ‘eiland’ in order to make the word look more Latin. This, despite the fact that the word ‘island’ has no Latin roots. It caught on and now that is the proper spelling of ‘island’ and you’d be a fool to try to force people to spell it ‘eiland’.

English is used by the unwashed masses and trying to get it to adhear to strict rules or not change will be as effective as trying to stop a flood by holding out your hand.

English was not exactly right when you were born with the spelling of ‘island’ and was wrong hundreds of years ago with ‘eiland’, nor is it wrong that dumb means stupid instead of mute, or literally can be used to mean figuratively.

Gif þū ne sacast for eftcyme to Eald Englisc, þonne is hit līcnessēocnes tō sacanne þæt sprǣc ne mæg wrixlan.

Z always points outwards

I’m sorry, I see you just wanted to knock your straw man around and are unable to handle actual push back. I’ll leave you to it.

The Catholic Church

Catholics and Christians, while similar, go to different churches. So despite the fact that:

“Of their local church” is what [you] clearly stated

You are in fact associating them with people who do not attend “their local church”.

You think every church has pedos in it and you accuse me of building a straw man?

You are the people you associate with

Do they associate with people 2000 miles away? Or do they just like the same book?

Is everyone who enjoys Lord of the Rings responsible for the actions of other LotR fans?

Many of them do speak out against and actively oppose those who use religion as an excuse for bigotry.

Then some idiot responds with “No True Scotsman” and thinks they made a brilliant retort against someone who you would think they would be on the same side as.

There were 2 big things that cover 90% of things Jesus said in the Bible.

1. love people. Full stop. Yes, them too.
2. don’t listen to hypocrites that make up religious rules and tell you you have to obey them.