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Anti-Religious Trolling On Mumsnet

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DioneTheDiabolist · 26/03/2016 00:36

I get that not everyone is religious and that some people are very anti-religious (some with good reasons).

But some MNetters are religious, others are simply curious. So how come so many threads are allowed to be derailed by anti-religious trolls? Today a thread about Good Friday was deleted because a troll came on. FFS, it's Easter! Threads about Islam are regularly derailed by Islamophobes. On a thread seeking information on Judaism in the Philosophy & Religion topic, a troll has posted LMFAO. Ok, serious question, why does the Jewish God make all men wear a funny beards? She continues venting for a few posts before eventually exiting the thread saying that she is on drugs because It's Easter, party time.

She is a MN regular, like most of the anti-religious trolls here. I have reported her posts but they still stand.

Trolls are not interested in knowing what other people think or believe. They have no desire to discuss the point of actual threads and rarely start threads of their own regarding their issues with religion or belief. They just derail threads in the hope of driving all talk of religion and different beliefs off MN. And they are succeeding.

Why are MNHQ allowing this to happen? Deleting threads instead of dealing with posters? Allowing blatant anti-religious trolling to derail threads that people may find supportive or informative? Is MN a religion free zone? Because if it is, that's ok. I just think that religious posters should be told. Then they can go elsewhere if they wish to discuss their beliefs.

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FiveSixPickUpSticks · 26/03/2016 01:51

Another I agree here.

SecretWitch · 26/03/2016 01:33

Agree. I read that thread and was appalled.

AGnu · 26/03/2016 01:29

Yup, I tend to avoid even reading threads related to any religion now. All the "sky fairy" stuff will just irritate me.

I even thought twice about commenting on this thread because I don't have the energy to deal with arguing.

DioneTheDiabolist · 26/03/2016 01:19

Elinor, my experience of atheists (and I was one for many years, so maybe a bit biased) is that most of them are ok that others have a faith. And some are actually interested in other people's faiths.

This is not a religion vs atheism thread. It's a thread about trolls.

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RudeElf · 26/03/2016 01:08

I'm atheist and I totally agree.

ElinorRochdale · 26/03/2016 01:05

I agree, OP. Many self-proclaimed atheists seem to be consistently rude and intolerant of other people's beliefs. And what happened on the Good Friday thread was apalling, with the OP almost bullied into asking for her thread to be deleted.

pickmeupputmedown · 26/03/2016 00:55

Agree with you 100%. I'm a Christian but rarely nowadays comment on religious threads because of the anti-religious posters. If I see any thread that does not interest me then I just skip onto the next one - if posters are not into religion why don't they just do the same. Do they really think that we are going to change our mind about our religion just because of what they say?

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