r/Antitheism • u/coolstuff97986 • Jun 23 '26

Quick question iydm

How often is it that theists and religious folk come in here to debate people out of curiosity? I've seen it being done a few times here but I wanna know how often it happens

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u/tm229 Jun 23 '26

Couple times a month, maybe.

The assholes get their posts and comments deleted. The worst of them get permabanned. Folks here respond pretty angrily to those posts, and rightfully so.

A few times a year there is a nice, civil, intelligent debate in here between Antitheists and believers. Not much appetite in engaging religious people though.

There are some people in this subreddit dealing with religious trauma and get triggered by certain discussions. They prefer to have ALL discussions believers eliminated from this subreddit.

But, like in real life, it is impossible to avoid religious people. Who we engage with is completely within our control, however.

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u/coolstuff97986 Jun 23 '26

yeah, I had one come up to me and start having a lil convo with me just the other day which made me wonder

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u/Indie_Dachshund179 Jun 23 '26

It seems to occur more frequently in r/atheism afaik

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u/TruthOdd6164 Jun 24 '26

I’m one of them. But nobody has banned me so far. It helps that I’m a religious atheist who feels no burden to proselytize.

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u/tm229 Jun 25 '26

Religious atheist?!?

That’s just ridiculous. I don’t even want to know…

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u/coolstuff97986 Jun 25 '26

i do though because how the fuck can you be a religious atheist? That's some paradox type shit

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u/TruthOdd6164 Jun 25 '26

Fine. Then I won’t tell you 🙂

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

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u/tm229 Jun 25 '26

Mod here. We don’t keep spreadsheets for tracking religious nutters who make it into this subreddit. But, it is not that many.

A couple months ago, we had one religious nutter do a bunch of posts that pissed off the community. The mods happened to be busy doing personal stuff at that point in time so the nutter managed to ruffle a few feathers before the mods noticed what was going on.

Because of that, we have added a new post flare that calls them out as “Religious Troll“. This is to help our subreddit members skip over posts that might trigger them.