I wouldn't hire a religious person as a faculty member because to be religious today you have to make so many failures of basic reasoning that you are unsuited for the position.
Or Roger Penrose?
Also I can (theoretically) hire Dyson, since he is still alive.
You may find it interesting to read Einstein's discussions of religion and spirituality too, in particular this quote:
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal god is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." [1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Albert_Eins...
HN requires civility and tolerance is probably the greatest component of that.