I'm sorry. I obviously misread you.
Unfortunately, the comment is still a flamewar starter even if you didn't intend it that way, because it didn't make your intent clear enough. I wasn't the only person who took it the wrong way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709050. If we had left it in its original position, there would likely have been others.
The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent in such cases (I was just writing about this elsewhere - perhaps it will help explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709303). And as the site guidelines say, "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
ok - I deeply apologize and since we are detached, I will also add that I study the Bible myself, and my first wife was in fact Jewish. Please, really sorry to be in this awkward moment
note: I will re-read the guidelines in an abundance of caution, but I repeat.. I am being misunderstood deeply .. this is not at all meant as some kind of problem thing to say