Be polite to the seekers, block the trolls.

I am not seeing that much here at all. But I may be missing it, or not paying attention to it. I like this site very much.

They're on a mission from god!

There are are few theists (some at high levels) on these pages that occasionally slime these pages with faith (belief without evidence) over facts nonsense. After burning many hours trying to demonstrate how wrong their assertions are, I have found it best to just avoid their posts. In face to face discussions I can usually bring a theist to admit they are wrong - - or in some (thankfully rare) occasions cry, cower like a beaten dog or assume the fetal position. But for some on these pages, reason has limited effective value - not worth your time. The majority of minds on these pages are good.

My feeling is, they truly belive if they can just "get us to think" we will fall to our knees & sing Hosannas. Disrespectful at best, and on a par with their Tooth Fairy ideas.

That happens here. They are ban hammered if they get rude or over bearing. But we can handle polite debate.

After all, many of us know the bile-ble better than they do.

We get a believer every once in a while... If they start posting Bible verses or try to convert anyone, they get booted very quickly

They tend to believe that their way is THE way. It's extremely frustrating and I am about out of patience.

I'll mention no names but there at at least three obvious Christian apologist posting regularly on this site, posting all the old tired Apologetic's arguments and then never coming back when they are shot down.
The rise in magical thinking here too is becoming seriously irksome.

I'm not seeing that here. Over the last nearly two years that I've been on this
site, I've seen believers come and go.
Some have been trolls, some are in earnest.
They don't usually last long, for one reason or another.
I've never seen "infiltration" as a problem here.

I've never understood why the religious would want to be part of a community like this one. I don't buy the 'I enjoy good debates' argument. From my experience the religious rarely think deeply about what and why they believe, don't relish serious questions about that, and prefer to stay in their faith comfort zone. However, I have said before that there are some believers who hang around nonbelievers because of their own doubts, and this is one to maintain a camouflage while engaging on the issues. As for others, well maybe it's that silly converting others fantasy they hang onto.

They have alwasy doen this. They go out to nonreligious groups to look for converts, or more often to cause disharmony in the group so people stop going to them. They see it as "god's work".

Of course they are. That is why we have idiotic books and movies as well as trolls on a site.

If they are not proselytizing trying to convert us then they can learn but trolls are different and shouldn't be here

Trolls are everywhere. Give them a bit of response. And then "fogit abot it."

They don’t hang around long.

I on't know what u=you are trying to say. Please make your cognitive links more direct and specific so that readers can follow your words and intended logic.

I attempt to be polite with my responses unless of course other methods are necessary.

You can be agnostic and still be religious. Agnosticism doesn't define your beliefs, just your knowledge of the facts.

I've seen no evidence of that on this site. I'd welcome a pro-religious element of alternative ideas to avoid am echo chamber of like opinions.

They know we must have powerful juju and they want to partake of it!

Some are here for that. Others may be here to find out what we're about, or even because of doubts they have. But yes too many are just invading trolls.

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Yes, but you'll pick it out when they start expressing their opinions. I think they check us out to learn how what we believe and figure out a way to counter. Who knows, they might even switch sides. I did and I used to be an altar boy.

With all the dragonslayers and dragonslayerettes on this site, they are going to be in for one hell of a wake up call if they try it . . . .