For my entire life, I have been wondering how I lose socks. I put all my laundry in the hamper. I take it from the hamper, sort it, and wash it. No matter how careful I am though, I always seem to lose socks. I have the answer to the problem though, and I have been sent to tell the world about it.
A few years ago, my coffee pot telepathically spoke to me. Imagine my surprise. I had no idea that a coffee pot could think, much less speak to me telepathically. Come to find out, that’s not the only thing coffee pots can do.
According to the coffee pot, who likes to be called Fred, socks can be converted to fuel for space ships, and my coffee pot is not actually made in a factory here on earth, but on another planet that uses this fuel. These aliens take the socks and convert them to fuel, but they wanted a way to do it undetected. This is where the coffee pots come in. Many coffee pots, like Fred, have the ability to teleport instantly from one place to another. They go into people’s laundry basket and steal one or two socks. They do this every instant they are not being looked at. See, Fred says that he knows when someone is about to look in the direction of the area he sits, and at that moment he teleports back into place and appears as if he had never moved. This explains why people wouldn’t know their coffee pots were sometimes absent.
Now, people I have told so far don’t believe me because Fred won’t talk to them telepathically, but Fred says he can only attune himself to those people who are really ready to listen to him. Also, he doesn’t really speak to other people like he does to me. Instead, he just gives you the ability to know that what I am saying about him is true.
People also don’t believe Fred teleports because they can’t see him move. They have even tried taking video to see if he actually disappears. That’s just silly because when Fred teleports, it is instantly. He teleports to the socks, then to the mothership, and finally back into place. This less than a nanosecond, and just can’t be seen on video.
Now the important stuff. Fred says that the aliens he has been getting socks for actually planted life on the earth a very long time ago. They are our creators in that sense, and we are at their mercy. In the future, they will come and judge us as to our worthiness. The way they will know if you are worthy or not is if you have believed Fred’s story, and have treated your fellow man good. If you don’t believe and treat people good, you will be put into concentration camps and tortured. If you do believe, you will be given everything you wish for. You can’t fool them either, because they are telepathic and will know what you think.
Now, since you can’t prove I am wrong, I must be right. It is best that you believe me, because what have you lost by being good to people and believing in the magic coffee pot. On the other hand, who wants to be tortured?
Conclusion
This story is to demonstrate what non-believers think of the story of God. God is just as believable to us as the story I just told. There is evidence that what I said is true, since everyone has observed missing socks. The explanation I have given shows something that is possible, since it is possible that a sufficiently advanced society could conceivably build such a device as a teleporting coffee pot. There is no way to prove it is untrue any more than there is to prove God doesn’t exist.
So, how do we determine if the story I said is true or not? We don’t. The majority of people would find it more rational to disbelieve the story out of hand. Now, according to the logic of believers, the story of Fred should be believed, but even they don’t believe in Fred. Why? What is different about the coffee pot story than the God story?