Religious people tend to keep their heads down in STEM communities anyway, because if they make too much noise, they'll be asked to provide evidence, which is a

Religious people tend to keep their heads down in STEM communities anyway, because if they make too much noise, they'll be asked to provide evidence, which is antithetical to the very premise of religions. It's a STEM-community thing, not an HN thing. > I could say that the growth is fear correlates (as described in the article) with decreased engagement in organized religion. How would that go over? Would people appreciate a new kind of thought and a new diverse perspective? Or would they groan and roll their eyes? Well, you're begging the question there by framing that concept as 'new diverse perspective'. It's not that at all, but a tired, conservative perspective. The idea that people have lost their way because they've lost their faith and are now suffering for it is not even remotely new or diverse. So you would get groans and eye-rolls, which you would interpret as being against 'new, diverse', but which was actually against beating a tired old nag.