I feel like online applications and communities built around religion are pretty poor given how important religion is for lots of people. One hypothesis is that few hackers are religious. Maybe the YC community can confirm/offer a counter-explanation.
Ask YC: Are you religous?
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#3I'm not religious and religion makes me somewhat uncomfortable . This may be in part since religion is largely considered a private/personal matter in Canada (or at least Ontario :P).
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#4No, there are plenty of religious hackers, it's that they don't talk about it because there is nothing much to say: every single religious argument has been argued over and over for thousands of years. What's the point in doing it again?
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#5I haven't given religion much thought (as a coding problem),
But have you looked at sites like,
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#6Sort of, I believe that there is probably a higher being that created that initial micron of matter. But I don't believe that there is a "god" that watches our every move.
And I believe that organized religion is nothing more than a huge thousand year old scam. Make lots of money and convert as many people as you can to make even more money. 400 years from now Scientology will be on the same level as Christianity.
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#7I took a fair amount of religion courses in college, but I am not religious (believe there is no God, etc). However, I do find religion very interesting.
The irony here is that the tech community is extremely "religious" in another context. Vim or Emacs? Mac or Linux? Java/.NET or Python/Perl/Ruby/PHP? In that sense there are a ton of religious communities.
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#8I don't consider myself religious, but I have incorporated some buddhist practices into my life.
Also, not to derail, but I think that it's pretty ambiguous whether buddhism counts as a religion, per se, according to the (generally unstated) assumptions in discussions like these. Some schools of buddhism are athiestic or agnostic, some are not, etc.
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#9Nope. Edit: As Dawkins pointed out, most Christians are atheists in regard to Thor and Zeus. Atheists just go one god farther.
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#10I took a fair amount of religion courses in college, but I am not religious (believe there is no God, etc). However, I do find religion very interesting. The irony here is that the tech community is extremely "religious" in another context. Vim or Emacs? Mac or Linux? Java/.NET or Python/Perl/Ruby/PHP? In that sense there are a ton of religious communities.
Fanboy is probably a better term for that