pink unicorns
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them." -- Steve Eley
Personally i think this is stupid. Kinda funny, but stupid. It is supposed to show the faith people have for their religions. We have faith that God is out there, but have no proof. I'm sure the christians and catholics are not amused by this.
It is accepted that there are no actual believers in this mock goddess, but it has become popular, especially on atheist web sites and on-line discussion forums, to feign belief in her for the sake of humor and as a form of critique or satire of theistic belief. These professions of faith also make the point that it is difficult to refute avowals of belief in phenomena outside human perception. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn
Personally i think this is stupid. Kinda funny, but stupid. It is supposed to show the faith people have for their religions. We have faith that God is out there, but have no proof. I'm sure the christians and catholics are not amused by this.
It is accepted that there are no actual believers in this mock goddess, but it has become popular, especially on atheist web sites and on-line discussion forums, to feign belief in her for the sake of humor and as a form of critique or satire of theistic belief. These professions of faith also make the point that it is difficult to refute avowals of belief in phenomena outside human perception. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn
posted by Layc @ 3:47 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:37 PM,
David said…
Their approach might be a little off-putting, but they do address an interesting point.
That is, are certain religious beliefs inherently logically inconsistent? Are they like the statement I wrote on the board "All generalizations are bad."? Where the statement is self contradictory.
The Invisible Pink Unicorn, is both invisible and pink, which is absurd on its face: how can you be pink if you are also invisible.
The proponents of this idea then ask are there ideas like these in religion that are absurd on their face? Does the defense that the ideas are mysterious carry weight?
Maybe they are mysterious. Maybe we aren't smart enough to understand the depth of the idea. Or maybe the idea isn't any good.
The interesting question for me is: How could we tell the difference? Can we tell the difference between an idea that is beyond us and an idea that is simply boloney?
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