[hnamazon123]

Where did I 'name call' though?

Why is this acceptable to you?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795186

I'm not religious but this would seem to be absurdly inflammatory in normal contexts. I think that may even be illegal to put into practice.

Also why allow political stories at all if you don't want people exclusively discussing them?

[dang]

'Religion' and 'close-minded' are name-calling in the context you used them in. So is 'leftists', for that matter, since you construed that category of people only to put them down.

That comment you linked to is absolutely not acceptable, and I've chided the commenter. If you saw it earlier, I wish you'd have have flagged it. We rely on users to bring unacceptable comments to our attention, and that's the best way. In egregious cases you can also email us at [e-mail]. (To flag comments, you need 30+ karma, and then can click on a timestamp to go to a comment's page and click 'flag'.)

It's dismaying that you could possibly have thought such a comment was acceptable, given the effort I've put into communicating just the opposite: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....