Strategies To Keep Them Engaged

[median]

Sorry Median.

Admirable sentiments but.....

1) unlike theists, atheists don't need to hold onto "converts"
2) there is just so much explaining one can do before one starts swearing like a trouper at the person concerned.
3) quite frankly I am on this site for "community" not evangelicalism of the atheist perspective
4) this is the internet and your feelings and engagement should be your own to determine
5) no one should "walk-on egg shells". this is silly.

What does get up my nose is that theists tend to demand that they are somehow 'special' and deserving of 'special' treatment

I agree completely, and I was not in any way attempting to make a case for 'pussy-ism'. When "Hey, fuck you!" is necessary I'll be right there. I am here for community as well. As such, I'd like to (at the same time) keep theists engaged (i.e. - hearing/seeing their flaws) for as long as possible. Tis all.

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Look, you think just because someone does not stick around that we don't accomplish something I bet you ran from some skeptic at first, but that seed they planted in you stuck, otherwise you wouldn't be an atheist now. And I also bet as a theist you wanted to have a strategy to get the non believers to listen to your message when you did believe.

We(meaning not one particular website, but the community) in it I have seen people who ran away like petulant children, but because of our bluntness and blasphemy, that seed of doubt stuck, like and they came back and thanked us for shaking them out of their delusion.

There is no right way to attempt to lead people out of religious delusion. Some respond to the library, and others respond to the verbal boxing. Most of the time a multi pronged approach works because it shows them that we are not monochromatic.

I warn against blanket statements and blanket solutions.

Agreed