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Invisible Pink Unicorn
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The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is a satiric parody religion aimed at theistic beliefs, based on the idea of a goddess in the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.
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.
The IPU can be used as a reductio ad absurdum of supernatural beliefs, for example by replacing the word "God" in an argument with "Invisible Pink Unicorn". A quote from the alt.atheism FAQ sums up their use of the Invisible Pink Unicorn:
The point of this silliness, of course, is to prod the theist into remembering that their preaching is likely to be viewed by atheists as having all the credibility and seriousness of [the atheists] preaching about the IPU ...
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