I don't see what is bad about having religious or cult like feelings around a tool. This sort of thing already exists for various programming languages. There w

I don't see what is bad about having religious or cult like feelings around a tool. This sort of thing already exists for various programming languages. There wouldn't be any of the advancements we consider standard today in most high level programming languages if it weren't for LISP. If people weren't fanatics about homoiconic and functional features in their languages, we would be in a much worse place. Fortunately languages gaining popularity nowadays resemble LISP much more than they do FORTRAN. This probably wouldn't be the case if there weren't very smart people evangelizing the benefits of LISP over the past half a century.