I appreciate your followup comment. Perhaps I misread your tone. As someone else said, it just sounded so silly that it seemed to lampoon the perspective of tho

I appreciate your followup comment. Perhaps I misread your tone. As someone else said, it just sounded so silly that it seemed to lampoon the perspective of those who supposedly hold it. It felt like caricature -- like the written equivalent of me doing an impression of a Christian while crossing my eyes and saying in a doofy voice "I believe in the magic sky-man", where obviously their conception of god could be given a more charitable viewing :)