I've made this comment in response to this type of moderation before: if comments expressing skepticism (or even cute stories about kids being kids) are detache

I've made this comment in response to this type of moderation before: if comments expressing skepticism (or even cute stories about kids being kids) are detached, but comments lacking skepticism it are not, then a bias is created in which it becomes okay for the religious to discuss those intellectual aspects of their beliefs suitable for HN, but not anyone else. And FWIW, I thought the commenters in this thread did a decent job of not turning it into a flamewar. So if this comment was detached because it received a lot of flags, consider that it may be effectively suppressing an interesting intellectual viewpoint because of one group's disproportionate taking of offense at disagreement, to the point of feeling the need to flag this comment but not other, similar comments that support that group.