@Amazebyu @Jeruba is right. While you may have meant to say “many religious people,” you didn’t and the only option anyone has is to respond to what you actually did say, not what you meant to say. We have no way of knowing what you might have meant to say.
Words have meaning. When you construct a sentence it means what is means, not what you might of meant for it to mean and the way your question was phrased and constructed there was really no way to interpret it other than as a sweeping generalization about “religious people.” @Jeruba is right to call you on it. You chose your words, constructed your sentence and you want to clarify it fine, clarify it. Say, oops, or sorry what I meant was but you can’t argue that you didn’t say what you said. There is no problem in making mistake, in wording something not quite right.
And @Jeruba is not “taking it personally.” Her issue is entirely with your language, the way you constructed and wrote your question, not with with you. You may have meant something else, but you said what you said. Sorry, but it matters, if you want to communicate clearly and precisely, that is.