I've rewritten this comment several times. It's hard to strike a good balance in intellectual conversations about topics that are central to people's core identities. If too much deference is given to belief, then conversations will inevitably end up lopsided, where it's impossible to disagree with any point without being charged with bigotry and intolerance. On the other hand, it's all too easy to burn the bridges that might allow a believer to join a discussion. And finally, there are some aspects of some beliefs that are antithetical to free inquiry, so it becomes especially hard to discuss such in a dispassionate way.

Jesus Christ, apparently my parody style didn't work via text :(

I've never seen anyone downvoted here for admitting to being a Christian. (Or a Buddhist or atheist or whatever.)

I have seen people, completely deservedly, get downvoted for trying to use HN as a venue for proselytism, or for denying well established scientific discoveries that happen to conflict with things they hold as religious doctrine, or for other varieties of rudeness or stupidity that would earn them downvotes whatever their reason for doing it.

Incidentally, I haven't seen "martyr" used to mean "suicide murderer". I think the usual modern meaning is "person killed, or perhaps just severely persecuted, for their religion". (And then of course it gets used metaphorically to refer to any sort of actual or perceived persecution for any reason; but the underlying meaning is what I said.)

Noun. A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.

Verb. Kill (someone) because of their beliefs. Example: ‘she was martyred for her faith’