What is your opinion of banana man

[CapnAwesome]

My opinion of Cumfart can be summarised in this way (other than the autocorrected version of his name). One of his trademark sermons is the parachute analogy. Basically, the idea is you're on an aeroplane that's about to crash. Forget wealth, treasure and possessions; the most valuable item you could hope to have is a parachute. And the parachute is God etc etc.

One commentor on the Atheist Experience blog when he trotted out this tired old nag on the show put it beautifully:

it’s more like he is telling you he will cut the engines, and won’t give you the parachute if you don’t agree to kiss his feet forever. He’s creating the problem and then offering you the solution. Then you look around and realize, he can’t cut the engines, and there was never a ‘chute anyways.

The better reply to this would be "Well then you'd be really fucked when you found out the parachute was imaginary."