Sorry, dude.
Also: lol.

I do. I ****ing love music, but not to the point where I stop considering musicians musicians.

Accept you said I lost my credibility when I said I put music on a pedestal. But know you're saying that you do. Ok, everything you say is complete mush.

When it pushes you to the point of closemindedness, yes. Yes, you lose your credibility after that point.

Getting back to the OP it's important to note that knowing music theory and being able to read standard notation are not the same - many guitarists have a good knowledge of theory in the sense of being able to find chord inversions and substitutions and knowing what notes will sound good over a particular harmony, without being able to read standard notation. In fact guitarists have only been using standard notation since about 1770, before then it was always tablature of some sort.

I do about 60 to 80 gigs a year (on guitar) and probably only 3 or 4 of them would require reading - for example if I'm working with a classical singer who gives me a score or working with music theatre. Frownland is right about western notation having a very specific bias for Western sounding music. Many flamenco forms work very badly in standard notation - a solea for example tends to have accents at the end of it's phrases, when bar lines imply accents at the beginning. a siguiriya has a rhythm cycle of 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 2, which ends up as a mess if you try and use time signatures. Indian music fares even worse.

well i play guitar so that makes me a guitar player.
seems pretty simple
i mean i dont have a piano hanging on my wall next to my charts.
there is a ukulele though