I think that in an advanced society people should be able to work with people that maybe think you are going to hell after you die for not worshipping the corre

I think that in an advanced society people should be able to work with people that maybe think you are going to hell after you die for not worshipping the correct God. We don't discriminate based on religion, at least we shouldn't by law. People by the way usually leave religion outside work. I think there is consensus this is a good thing but it seems some people don't want to extend this principle that works so well to other aspects of life. Cargo cult is not just for programming. I have worked with people coming from all the political spectrum and I prefer to evaluate their professional competence based on their acts, not their words. I have by the way seen misogynistic people change their opinion about women and homophobes change their opinion about homosexuals after some time being in the same company. Alienating people will just keep them in their bubble. And I'm completely sure of something: the company may have fired the guy that wrote the book but what they really wanted was to fire the people campaigning for it.