Good grief. SOME NUMBER blah blah RELIGIOUS ISSUE.

So I have trouble with any article that starts with SOME NUMBER because that's about as lazy as starting with a definition. It's bad discourse.

And I don't understand how RELIGIOUS ISSUE belongs on HN. In this case it's comments, but it could as easily have been favorite language, editor, or any general dogma.

Those are my "2 reasons to avoid the contentious but vapid article".