a rejection of the gods

I'm working my way through Murray's Five Stages of Greek Religion (slower than I'd like, but I am a tortoise after all), and he says the following:

[That the Christians are considered atheists] may surprise us at first sight, but the explanation is easy. To Julian the one great truth that matters is the presence and glory of the gods. No doubt, they are all ultimately one: they are δυνάμεις ["dynameis"], "forces," not persons, but for reasons above our comprehension they are manifest only under conditions of form, time, and personality, and have so been revealed and worshipped and partly known by the great minds of the past. In Julian's mind the religious emotion itself becomes the thing to live for. Every object that has been touched by that emotion is thereby glorified and made sacred. Every shrine where men have worshipped in truth of heart is thereby a house of God. The worship may be mixed up with all sorts of folly, all sorts of unedifying practice. Such things must be purged away, or, still better, must be properly understood. For to the pure all things are pure: and the myths that shock the vulgar are noble allegories to the wise and reverent. Purge religion from dross, if you like; but remember that you do so at your peril. One false step, one self-confident rejection of a thing which is merely too high for you to grasp, and you are darkening the Sun, casting God out of the world. And that was just what the Christians deliberately did.

If I understand this appropriately, he is saying that the flip side of tolerance is hubris, yes? Denying tolerance to others' experience of the Divine is tantamount to denying the Divine itself, and one does not deny the Divine to their face! Have we not Arachnes, Icaruses, Niobes, and Pirithouses enough to see how that is regarded?