Did you accomplish what you set out to do with your comment?
Was his comment to distance the Golden Rule from Christianity? I'm having a hard time interpreting it otherwise, but that's an ignorant effort, as the "do unto others" concept predates Jesus of Nazareth by 1,000+ years.
I'm still not clear on what the point of his comment was; all I did was ask for clarification, with NO commentary at all. Can you clarify his initial intent? If so, please do.
Also, I know you might not have been one of the folks to give me downvotes, so I'll address whoever that was separately: Don't just downvote a comment on HN without explaining your beef. This isn't Reddit.
Hope that clears things up! I definitely wasn't trying to start a controversy. Hope you have a Merry Christmas season :)
It really provided little to negative value to the conversation, and your profanity-laden response doesn't help your case.
We try not to do that on reddit either. We also try to refrain from "this isn't Digg".
The Golden Rule comes from Hillel who was a Rabbi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder#The_Golden_Rul...