Russell's Teapot

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I’m looking for examples of Russell’s Teapot. That is, any kind of parody god meant to show the unfalsifiability of the idea of a supernatural being. So far I have:

Flying Spaghetti Monster
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Invisible Space Pickle

There are other parody religions, for example Dudeism, but they usually don’t have fictional deities.

So, any more?

2

I don’t know if it was anything bigger than my friends and acquaintances, but when I was a kid (late 80s) I recall the “hot” fictional deity was Bob, supposedly superior to God because Bob was the same spelled backwards. I don’t remember any other characteristics or power of Bob.

3

Presumably, J. R. “Bob” Dobbs.

4

I assume you’re looking for fairly crude and heavy-handed parody which rather transparently spoofs* supernaturalism? A good parody religion** is sufficiently esoteric that you’d never be able to prove that assertion from source materials.

  • Obvious troll religion is obvious.
    ** Poe’s Law in action: sufficiently advanced religious trollery is indistinguishable from sincere batshittery.
5

Slack!!

6

There’s the invisible, heatless fire breathing dragon in the garage that Carl Sagan used in his Demon Haunted World.

7

I’d heard of the Church of the Subgenius, but wasn’t sure exactly what "Bob"s status was, but I didn’t think he was a god. From what I’ve now read, he’s actually a prophet and it has a god named Jehovah-1 (which I’d never heard of before). So I guess I can add that to the list.

8

There’s Hank, of Kissing Hank’s Ass fame.