A moderator killed it. If you turn on 'showdead' in your profile, it's still there, it's just not displaying.

Possibly it's the title, because Hacker News has a no-religious-stories clause, but the article itself isn't remotely religious.

The article is clearly theistic. It is also long, people read the first quote and flagged it thinking you might be trying to introduce them to a theistic notion of some sort. Atheists on the internet are like that - if they weren't they'd be agnostic.

I fail to see how it's theistic. I'm an atheist myself, and in the opening segment it criticizes people who worship an actual God.

It clearly was secular humanist and not theistic at all, you just did a really good job of making the analogy to "regular" religions.

I give broad latitude for HN submissions particularly so I can pick up pieces like this. It reminded me of all the times great works of art have made me transcend the human experience. What a feeling! Wow!

I think the flagging system is terribly broken. You got whacked because of the word "God", plain and simple.

I did a 3-part series this summer "Does God Exist?" that examined the proofs for and against the existence of some sort of thing beyond our understanding. I didn't espouse a particular religious view (I really don't have any) and just tried to logically look at the debate from the point of view of being intellectually curious.

Every one of them were flagged. But I submitted all three anyway.

Keep up the good work and don't let the bastards get you down!

Also, the way to see the actual link for a dead story once it is killed is to change the URL for the story from item?id=x to edit?id=x

I posted it, I didn't remove it.