Your point there about cherry picking is specious. Yes, we build on what we already agree with, but not everyone subjects their worldview to challenges, by confronting alternative viewpoints or by testing their hypotheses. Cherry picking in the religious context is about establishing a self-reinforcing delusion and serving our infantile interest in avoiding conflict, by arbitrarily disregarding context and contrary pieces of evidence in the postmodern manner.

You’ll make “cherry picking” into a weasel word if you distort its meaning to apply to everyone or if you reduce it to the tautology that we prefer what we agree with.