Her Ladyship

In fairness, since a while ago I did a piece on the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s only proper that I say something about her ladyship, the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

While his noodleliness is a fairly recent, though growing, theology, her ladyship has been a source of comfort and admiration for many years. In a recent internet survey comparing the two, there appears to be an even split between the new and the traditional.

The Invisible Pink Unicorn, blessed be her holy hooves, is unlike any other deity as she is founded in both science and faith. The science states that she MUST be invisible because no one can see her. The faith part comes in because we know, in our hearts, that she doesn't exist.

Or at least like most (all?) goddesses, she's highly unlikely to exist. However, there is much argument as to her exact color, her shape and size, and other properties of her nonexistence. There no reason to let nonexistence ruin the chance for a good argument.

Her symbol has “been specifically designed not to directly offend people that have theistic beliefs.” This of course assumes that those people are both stupid enough to be offended by an atheistic symbol but not too ignorant to recognize it. Besides, who cares? What is it about religious beliefs that make even intelligent people want to walk around on tiptoes?

We condemn the KKK because its intolerance is based upon race, but we have to “not offend” by denouncing the intolerance against gays based upon Leviticus?

We loudly criticize a factory which pollutes a river out of greed, but have to “not offend” by labeling as irrational the disregard for the ecology driven by a belief in Dispensationalism and a desire to accelerate the arrival of the end times?

We correctly refuse to “teach the controversy” associated with Holocaust Revisionism but we have to “not offend” by identifying attempts to “teach the controversy” relating to evolution as ignorance because the source of that ignorance is the bible?

What is it that leads people to accord religion some type of special place in the scheme of things? Irrational or dangerous beliefs are irrational or dangerous regardless of their source and ignorance is something to be eliminated not nurtured.

All hail her Ladyship.

Hmmm, I wonder what you would get if you crossed a Flying Spaghetti Monster with an Invisible Pink Unicorn?