A spaceship glides into view: majestic, unmistakable, amazing technology barely distinguishable from magic.
The aliens prove their superior intelligence to the world:-
1] They demonstrate a proof of the four colour theorem using a 5 dimensional scale model of the White House, in red, white, octarine and hoolovoo.
2] They change Schrödinger's cat's litter tray without opening the box.
3] They demonstrate an understanding of one of the plots from The Rockford Files.
4] They demonstrate a new economic system in which poverty is eliminated, nobody is or feels exploited, wealth is distributed equally, productivity is enhanced, pollution reduced, job satisfaction improved, leisure time qualitatively enhanced, everybody gets an extra day off per week and an extra hour a night in bed.
5] Finally, this is the killer, they demonstrate positive proof to the satisfaction of everybody that there is no god.
It's fantasy isn't it? How could you ever manage to achieve point 5? There
is, surely, no possible scenario in which the religious would all hold their
hands up and admit “fuck me, we were wrong!”
I can even imagine the odd soul floating up after a thousand years of torment from a lake of burning brimstone in the Hell of some other god and saying “you'd better watch out when (splutter, retch) Jesus hears about this!”
The idea that faith is a good thing (absurd if you contemplate it for one moment with the safety catch of your brain turned off) coupled with whatever nonsense they want to associate with it is an unbeatable combination. Being stupid, ignorant and irrational become virtues in an instant. Black is white and they believe they are better people for believing it. They believe their god invented morality and only believers in their god can be moral and everything that is or could ever be good is the direct responsibility of their god, and everything that is or ever could be bad derives from the act of rejecting that god.
Is it any wonder that an idea like that gets passed on? It is immune from logic and disproof and they regard spreading this poisonous rationality killing idea as the highest calling a human being can have, applauding each other for how far they are prepared to go to do it, and reserving the highest praise for those people who put spreading that reason-poison above their own life.
And they would like to make it immune from ridicule, humour and sarcasm too. That is something we must be prepared to fight.
