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I'm glad that you have had more positive experience on HN with faith/religious comments than I have. Others have made similar observations to mine.

Some conversations have gone well, but there are more that have not. Most likely my own fault for calling people on their intolerance rather than just shrugging and finding another story to comment on. :-)

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Remember that HN members aren't particularly concerned with being "tolerant". We tend to be very intolerant of weak or tired arguments, particularly those that don't seem to get basic facts straight (say, the kind of stuff you can find on wikipedia.) So, for example, an assertion that there's evidence of a worldwide flood, without a link to significant research, won't be taken well.

But HN members do like to learn new and interesting things, even from foreign worldviews. If the idea of "speaking in tongues" came up, a quick explanation of the practice and the history (especially with links) would be quite welcome.

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