All religions have rules for how you should live your life and few have much, if any, tolerance for anything outside of those rules. Consider that you have admitted to it yourself. In this respect, organized religion is little different from political dictatorship. Each of these comments definitely applies to some brands of religion and to some religious believers. They also, most definitely, do not apply to all.
Unpleasant truths are still truths.
Once again, I challenge you to dispute the substance of the statements and not solely their scope. To do otherwise is to agree that they are true, while engaging in irrelevant nitpicking at their edges. This is among the most biased writing I have ever seen. If you are as well read and educated as you have claimed, then you have most certainly read works which are truly biased. To put my essay alongside such works in any respect certainly indicates that you are reacting out of pure emotion instead of from intellect.