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, ge

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.)