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Religious flamewar is not allowed here, so please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Read the comment again.

If you don't want flame wars then why you allow posts like this "Tell HN"? It's the nature of religions to dogmatically tell people how to live so any religions posts will undoubtedly attract flame wars; might as well post about Donald Trump trial and not expected political flame wars.

The onus is on commenters not to post inflammatory/aggressive/flamewar things, even when they find a topic activating. The idea on HN is to find the capacity to discuss topics, even divisive topics, thoughtfully and respectfully.

That's not so hard, since it's always an option simply not to post anything, and there is always plenty of other material to pay attention to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

About the "not post anything" part, is not as easy as you think, I hold myself accounttable to my actions and the lack thereof, so like many here of my most valued principles is to do good, as in "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing", so sometimes I weight the likelihood of being banned (or just disliked, in general) against any positive impact my comment might have even if extremely tiny, specially when discussing life and death issues such as religion, or in the words of Minoo Majidi: "If I don't go out and protest, who else will?"

If you feel that way, there are far more important things to do than post on an internet forum.

There is always something more important, but we all can't be doing that, one powerful way to make a difference is pushing from all the angles and places, not only the ones deemed "important", that is it how it has always been, many one important parts of history started by two unimportant strangers socializing in some unimportant place.

Anyway, thanks for your work, I may disagree with some of your decisions but know most of your actions help make this forum worth reading.

> By the way, I'm in my period, I'm impure. I can't Eid Mubarak :(

Hey, I'm having a hard time finding a reference for this. Can you source this claim that someone on their period can't celebrate Eid al-Fitr?

It is consistent with the scope of intellectual curiosity. With the occasion of a kind greeting to all.

Dan, are you sure you want to keep this level of incivility on the board?

Think again, if it is really proper to not encourage exchange and encourage instead perplexing """performance art""". Too similar to the directly anti-axiological "how does that make you feel".

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