I never worry much about downvotes, neither on HN nor in real life. My personal policy is to write or say whatever I think should be said, whenever I think it s

I never worry much about downvotes, neither on HN nor in real life. My personal policy is to write or say whatever I think should be said, whenever I think it should be said, how I think it should be said and to whom I think it should be said. Of course, such a policy can only be successfully exercised when it's simmered in the virtue of prudence (i.e. its ongoing cultivation). I claim no particular success with regard to the latter, but I'll keep trying. Religion is a virtue, classically speaking, and true religion ought to be spoken of, publicly and privately, in season and out of season. RELIGION: the moral virtue by which a person is disposed to render to God the worship and service he desrves. It is sometimes identified with the virtue of justice toward God, whose rights are rooted in his complete dominion over all creation. Religion is also a composite of all the virtues that arise from a human being's relationship to God as the author of his or her being, even as love is a cluster of all the virtues arising from human response to God as the destiny of his or her being. Religion thus corresponds to the practice of piety toward God as Creator of the universe. (Etym. probably Latin religare, to tie , fasten, bind, or relegere, to gather up, treat with care.) – Fr. John Hardon, S.J., Modern Catholic Dictionary http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=36024 http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/in...