The clue is in the title Serious Discussion. Religion is a valid topic for serious discussion as has been pointed out on various occasions by the Dons.
The title of what is Serious Discussion? SC is Speaker's Corner with a description of "Intelligent debate of newsworthy issues". I'm sure no-one will mind a serious discussion of religion and philospohy there, but why can't we have one here? We have new rules about religious threads for GD and SC now, if the lolreligiontards are stupid enough to ignore them, then that's their problem. IMO they shouldn't be appeased.