The question is why overt Abrahamic theists post like that on science forums. It's an interesting question, because so many do - one can recognize a common style, even.
Except that Jan isn't an "overt Abrahamic theist". Jan's something else.
The problem with trolls is that it's hard to tell if they really believe what they claim to believe.
During the last few years, Jan's done all that he/she can do to keep him/herself mysterious. (We don't even know if Jan is male or female, or what part of the world he/she lives in.) I've asked several times what teaching Jan has received and what tradition he/she adheres to. Jan's response has been that Jan has received no religious teaching and adheres to no tradition. (Jan says that he/she makes it all up for him/herself.) I think that Jan prefers to always be mysterious because providing any information would create vulnerabilities, things that Jan feels could be attacked and would have to be defended. Jan prefers to always be on the attack and always be trying to mess with other people's heads.
But... Jan has been on Sciforums for more than 15 years. And in the earlier years, Jan was a lot more open about his/her beliefs. I think that Jan still is, or at least at one time was, a "Hari Krishna". (Maybe he/she learned the trollish posting style from trying to mess with strangers at airports.)
The connection comes from the fact that Jan's Hindu scripture quotes (back when he/she still seemed to be willing to express views) come from translations by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the guru of the Hari Krishna's. But most of those old threads are conveniently hidden today in Sciforums' seemingly semi-secret "religion archives".
Here's a 16-year-old thread from before Jan had figured out how to work the quote function, in which he/she was preaching Hinduism and posing as an authority on the subject. (It's entertaining in those old threads to watch Jan trying to instruct people who appear to be Indians on the subtleties of their own religion.)
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/intelligence-vs-self-in-the-gita.5790/
Here's a 15-year-old thread in which Jan is telling everyone "...the B.G. [Bhagavad Gita] is the essence of the Vedas. It is truly the jewel in the crown. All theists should study B.G. in my humble opinion."
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/advice-on-the-vedas.28610/
Here's a 15-year-old thread in which Jan informs everyone, "Ignorance means not knowing or being aware of ones real position as a soul and taking the phenomenal, temporal body to be the self... Study the BG, you will understand."
In that same thread Jan tells an apparent Indian, "I too am fortunate enought to read BG in its original language and listen to it in native tone, and can recite a verse or two, so we have something in common." Obviously literacy in Sanskrit, if there's any truth to that (I'm very skeptical), suggests serious religious training.
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/will-the-meek-hinduism-survive.16907/page-2
Here's a 14-year-old thread in which Jan was playing games similar to those he/she plays now, trying to provoke opponents emotionally by accusing them of being in "denial". Except back then he/she was still quoting from Prabhupada (about atoms in this instance):
http://mail.sciforums.com/threads/burden-of-proof.31735/page-3
Here's a 14-year-old thread in which Jan was posing as an authority on 'eastern religion' more generally, insisting that Buddhists are really Hindus deep down, seeking to merge with Brahman. (Many Hindus, including the Hari Krishnas apparently, dismiss Buddhism that way or at least hope that it will serve as an evangelistic hook to convert Buddhists.)
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/theory-of-evolution-and-major-eastern-religions.43026/
Here's a 13-year-old-thread in which Jan tells us: "...it is obvious to me that the BG is a universal scripture, for the pleasure of Krishnas devotees from all over the universe... It is a scripture that explains everything."
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-bhagavad-gita-and-ethics.48085/page-6
Here's a much more recent 4-year-old thread in which Jan slips up and writes: "Consider this claim of God's... 'I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me' ". (It's from the Bhagavad Gita.)
http://sciforums.com/threads/to-pro...te-god-with-invisible-unicorns.143034/page-19
I call it a slip-up since by that time Jan was trying desperately to hide his/her own personal religious background, actually insisting that he/she has received no teaching, while attacking everyone else for their supposed ignorance about the subject of religion. (
How Jan became a supposed authority on the divine, on man's relationship with the divine, and on the beliefs of all traditions, without benefit of any education, religious teaching and without belonging to any tradition is one of the mysteries.)
In contrast to the more recent denials, I think that there are subtle and not-so-subtle signs of Jan's own religious background throughout what he/she has written over the years.
