That was already explained at length in the show, Enterprise, in the episode entitled, Affliction.

Except that Kirk made clear in Who Mourns for Adonais that he believes in God. Not to mention the Hindu woman among the crew.

Maybe the character is so religious he would never take the Lord's name in vain.

All major Federation characters were not faithless. "Man has no need for gods. We find the one quite sufficient." Captain Kirk in "Who Mourns for Adonais".

Wiping religion off the map Stalin style contradicts the idea that Discovery embraces diversity and respects canon. It indicates Discovery will instead be used as a vehicle to push an agenda rather than to embrace and expand Star Trek's legacy.

This certainly breaks with canon and seems to be the show runners imposing their agenda on Star Trek. Just because Roddenberry was an atheist doesn't mean he wanted to depict religion as dead in the future, and he didn't. Religion is not a focus of Star Trek but there are references throughout several Star Trek series…

God was alive and well in the original Star Trek.

I don't know who these weirdos are, but I wouldn't call them men's rights activists. And their poll question was so poorly worded it's impossible to know if the answer "yes" meant that people went to see it or refrained from seeing it. I suspect a third grader who thinks girls have 'cooties' is behind this whole thing.

The criticism doesn't make sense. So if she references women, then gay people, the assumption is that when she say women she didn't mean lesbians? Just because there's overlap, including gay black women, it doesn't mean by saying one she was excluding women who are gay, only intended to include them in the gay…