Especially please don't conduct religious flamewars on HN. There are other places on the internet to fulminate against insert-opposite-position-about-religion-here.
This is not meant as a flame war or a tangent. When I say I find religion scary, it's in response to the article pointing out that a blogger who focused on the absence of religious tolerance was hacked to death with a machete by members of the very religion he stood against.
I don't think I'll come to your way of thinking about my post (no surprise) but I'm a bit confused why HN would allow an article to get to the front page if it doesn't want the contents therein discussed.
Edit in response to Being Kinder. Be Kind http://boz.com/articles/be-kind.html
HN doesn't "allow" articles to get to the front page. They get there on their own; sometimes they then get flagged or penalized, as this one did. This story, though horrific, wasn't off-topic per se—but HN is incapable of conducting a meaningful discussion about anything so inflammatory, so in practice it ends up being so.
Edit: We disagree, but your effort to be kind is more important than that. I appreciate it.