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Throughout the five days of being trolled and seeing 100s of atheist messages, they seem to fall into a limited number of repeated errors. Many of these errors are forms of [[confirmation bias]] or [[Logical fallacies#Circular reasoning|assuming what they are trying to prove]].<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughcatholiclenses/2018/12/i-was-trolled-by-atheists-for-5-days-and-learned-nothing/ Atheists Trolled Me for 5 Days, So I Learned Their Strategies]</ref>}}
Throughout the five days of being trolled and seeing 100s of atheist messages, they seem to fall into a limited number of repeated errors. Many of these errors are forms of [[confirmation bias]] or [[Logical fallacies#Circular reasoning|assuming what they are trying to prove]].<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughcatholiclenses/2018/12/i-was-trolled-by-atheists-for-5-days-and-learned-nothing/ Atheists Trolled Me for 5 Days, So I Learned Their Strategies]</ref>}}
Gene Veith in his article entitled The [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] Crack-up
{{Cquote|The decline of discourse on the internet corresponded with the rise of the “New Atheists,” who believed that religion is the source of all that is wrong in the world. These New Atheists were not interested in arguing with religious believers, whom they dismissed as evil idiots. Instead, they berated them with mockery and insults. Thus the phenomenon of “atheist trolls.”<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2019/12/the-new-atheist-crack-up/ The New Atheist Crack-up] by Gene Veith</ref>}}
Internet trolls often employ mockery and atheists have a history of engaging in mockery (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]). In his article, ''Mockery - the M.O. for atheists'', [[Matt Barber]] discusses an incident in which the [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] encouraged atheists to engage in tactics which Barber considers to be acts of hateful mockery.<ref>[http://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/matt-barber/2014/05/08/mockery-the-mo-for-atheists ''Mockery - the M.O. for atheists''] by [[Matt Barber]]</ref>
Internet trolls often employ mockery and atheists have a history of engaging in mockery (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]). In his article, ''Mockery - the M.O. for atheists'', [[Matt Barber]] discusses an incident in which the [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] encouraged atheists to engage in tactics which Barber considers to be acts of hateful mockery.<ref>[http://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/matt-barber/2014/05/08/mockery-the-mo-for-atheists ''Mockery - the M.O. for atheists''] by [[Matt Barber]]</ref>