For what little it's worth, I am not a religious person, but I found Knuth's Surreal Numbers perfectly reasonable, much more on the tongue-in-cheek side than th

For what little it's worth, I am not a religious person, but I found Knuth's Surreal Numbers perfectly reasonable, much more on the tongue-in-cheek side than the proselytizing side. And the surreal numbers are over of my favorite things in mathematics, so I'd say they're worth it :)