Chrozayis

This is called diversity. This is efficient, as the time we don't spend for judging other beliefs can be used to review their code instead. :p

No, open source projects just don't care about much but the code. Most of the rest of crypto is very unlike my experience with OSS though.

It's almost as if Bitcoiners are more concerned about the project itself...

Yeah, no thanks. Lets Judge on the code, not whether we like their religious or ideological beliefs.

That backfired quickly

There's no official core team. If you regularly submit patches that are good enough to be accepted, you're considered a core dev. Your beliefs don't matter as long as your patches are good and pass peer review. In other words, there's nothing to refuse.

Rejecting contributions based on the religion of the author is absurd. His contributions (like anyone else's) should be judged by themselves.