[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Paraselene]

This doesn't mean that god doesn't exist; just that the books about him weren't written by him. To show that he doesn't exist, we'd need further arguments.

Magical garden gnomes may exist, too, but it is unreasonable to have faith in that which defies logical thinking. It is perfectly reasonable to state, god does not exist. Only in light of actual evidence would it be folly to make such a statement, and then one would hopefully have enough intellectual honesty to at the very least acknowledge god's existence even if the god was unworthy of any type of attention.