Ask HN: Hiring “Jesus lovers” for your tech/science startup

Really weird to see people admit to blatantly discriminating against people who have a religion.

In the UK what you're describing is unlawful.

> but the indications I get from those statements are that this individual ultimately hasn't progressed very far intellectually or challenged their beliefs strongly enough. I fear it is a limiting mindset,

Can you see that here you're doing exactly what you describe people with a faith of doing? You're not examining nor challenging your beliefs.

You'll say that you haven't met many scientists who also have a faith, but you're not examining why people with faith don't want to tell you about it, and how that factors into your confirmation bias.

Perl was created by Larry Wall who is a Christian (New Life, Church of the Nazarene).

Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto who is a Christian (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

My best guess: people are really bad at generalising someone's aptitude in one area to another. It's a common joke in academia actually, where obviously and genuinely intelligent people failing to manage basic tasks is common.

So, assuming you are correct in estimating their aptitude towards picking a religion/lack of (I'll say nothing either way), it'll generalise poorly to their aptitude as a developer.

And they might feel the same way about you if you told them your belief that I quoted above.

People are diverse. Even people who describe themselves in a personal account as a Jesus lover will have differences in their beliefs and how they express those. You might not even know about their beliefs in the workplace.

Also, the church today isn't like the church from a hundred years ago. The church accepts that God can work through science. Meaning you can believe in both simultaneously.