alt Hacker NewsWhat's going on with all the open proselytizing on HN these days? I don't remember seeing them five years ago but now in every thread about personal struggles there is someone trying to convert people. Always to the same religion, too.
Edit: some people have replied saying why religion is helpful. Ok. But that doesn't answer my question of why is it showing up so much on HN lately.
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brightball • yesterday at 6:30 PM
That's probably because the religion itself naturally results in trying to help others.
SoftTalker • yesterday at 7:16 PM
Turning yourself over to a "higher power" and recognizing that you cannot fix yourself by yourself can be very helpful for some. It won't always be the right answer of course.
Feels a lot more like an offer than a hard sell to me.
I do sense the same thing you do, though; that there’s something of a religious revival swelling, at least in the West that’s overwhelmingly represented here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/10/20/growing-shar...
Economist via archive: https://archive.ph/M7NW0