Faith?

[Eilonnwy]

So you believe Yahweh is no different from the pink unicorn?

Totally the same, honestly?

The comparison to the Pink Unicorn is to show similarities in logic to arrive at their existence. You can define anything into existence, give it attributes outside science, and claim it's real and you can't prove it's not.

Essentially, there's a dragon in my garage. You can't see it, but it's there. You can't throw flour on the ground and detect it's footprints because it's floating. You can't throw a blanket on it because it's transcendent. (Thank you Carl Sagan for the Dragon analogy)

As you can see, you can claim anything exists and insulate it's characteristics from scientific inquiry. And you would be justified in saying there really isn't a dragon in my garage because you can't verify for yourself and you know I could also be lying or delusional. People like Arcanus and Fr0d0 would have you believe God is transcendent and above scientific inquiry. I don't accept it. They make very specific claims about what their god does, claims that are available to scientific inquiry and every time we look there's nothing, absolutely nothing. Even if there is a transcendent first cause god beyond our understanding and ability to study, it wouldn't be a god worth worshiping because that god would be useless and not the Christian God.

Do I think the Pink Unicorn is totally the same as god? No, because fortunately nobody kills in the name of the Pink Unicorn and never has.

Rather, God, the Abrahamic God (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) is completely synonymous with with Zeus, or Thor, only one still has followers.


(Think I've fulfilled my obligations on Blasphemy Day?)