Religious Discrimination

[goddamnit]

But you do know something else. You have their CVs. You have their references. They, to your knowledge, are equally likely to provide the services you need. According to the hypothetical, anyway.

The OP is supposed to be ceteris paribus.

Sure, if a guy thought magic ponies lived in his basements, odds are he's crazy. If he's high functioning crazy, that might shift the odds closer to genius. If he's otherwise reliable with good references and a strong performance record, what do you care that he's got some weird belief?

This question presupposes that I care if he has some weird belief. The word "weird" is both ambiguous and absent from my posts in this thread. If you meant "weird" in the sense that the belief is strange (i.e. uncommon), then I would not care. If by "weird" you meant the popular, semantic definition (supernatural), and floating Jesus is that supernatural entity, then it raises questions about how logical the person is when the job they will be performing involves heavy logic.

If you knew that one of them liked really really rough BDSM porn, would you reduce your probability of hiring him on the notion that he'd have a higher probability of committing rape on the premises?

No. I suspect that porn preference (or orientation or whatever) is a false analogy, but honestly, you might have checkmated me here. I will think it over.