I'm an atheist that's generally anti religion, but I think it's unfair to dismiss OP's personal experience as an invalid answer to the question. You could say

I'm an atheist that's generally anti religion, but I think it's unfair to dismiss OP's personal experience as an invalid answer to the question. You could say this community is implicitly a secular one, but OP's answer frames things within HN's guidelines. I guess in the spirit of HN's intellectual curiosity, we should at least acknowledge alternative life experiences here.