Religious Flamewars on HN

Comments primarily urge users to avoid religious flamewars, bashing beliefs, and off-topic religion discussions on Hacker News, viewing them as unproductive and against site norms.

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Sample Comments

RandomBacon Jul 17, 2019 View on HN

Please don't bash people here for their religious beliefs. HN is better than that.

dang Jul 23, 2015 View on HN

Please don't conduct religious flamewars on Hacker News.

dang Mar 28, 2015 View on HN

Please don't conduct religious flamewars on Hacker News.

dang Jan 23, 2016 View on HN

Please don't conduct religious flamewars on Hacker News.

tasuki Nov 30, 2025 View on HN

This is not the right context to try to push your religious views on others.

vorador Apr 25, 2009 View on HN

Please keep religion-bashing out of hn.

dang Sep 17, 2015 View on HN

Please don't conduct religious flamewars on HN.

dang Feb 14, 2017 View on HN

This comment crosses into religious flamewar, which is not allowed on HN, so please don't post like this.

neilv Apr 20, 2023 View on HN

No need to attack someone's religion in this context.

dang Apr 15, 2017 View on HN

Please don't do generic religion arguments here. It's unsubstantive and converges to flamewar.