"Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF?

[Purple Rabbit]

Stands on balcony with arms stretched onward and speaks in a deep dark voice: "I hereby attribute all that is observable to the great Garglemoth"

Looks around, but nothing changed noticebly at all.

So attribution is easy and leaves no observable trace, explains nothing and has no predictive or descriptive power whatsoever. QED

Everything changes. Everything is now understood in the light of Garglemoths' involvement.

You're looking for the trace of a trace, when what's in front of your nose is observable and verifiable fact.

That's ridiculous. Nothing changes. With the observable facts in front of your nose you cannot distinguish if the world should be understood in the light of the garglemoth, god, zoroaster or satan.

The thing is that attribution alone does not constitute an explanation or causal relation. It's sole purpose is to acquire a carte blanche for further attribution. Once the Garglemoth has thus falsely been given a raison d'être, all attributes you want can be projected onto him. If you want the Garglemoth to be all-good, sure, project it onto him and he's all-good. All-knowing? Same thing. But this is all projection in the head of the believer, there is no basis whatsoever in reality.