Back وحيد القرن الوردي غير المرئي Arabic Unicorniu rosa invisible AST Unsichtboas rosarods Oahoan BAR Нябачны ружовы аднарог Byelorussian Unkorneg Roz Diwelus Breton Unicorn Rosa Invisible Catalan Neviditelný růžový jednorožec Czech Unsichtbares rosafarbenes Einhorn German Αόρατος Ροζ Μονόκερως Greek Nevidebla Rozkolora Unukornulo Esperanto
The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.[1] The IPU is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.[2]
The IPU is used to argue that supernatural beliefs are arbitrary by, for example, replacing the word God in any theistic statement with Invisible Pink Unicorn.[3] The mutually exclusive attributes of pinkness and invisibility, coupled with the inability to disprove the IPU's existence, satirize properties that some theists attribute to a theistic deity.[4]
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