Editing Invisible Pink Unicorn (section)

{{Short description|Satirical goddess of a parody religion}}
[[File:Invisible Pink Unicorn.svg|thumb|A depiction of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, in the style of a [[Heraldry|heraldic]] animal [[Attitude (heraldry)#Salient|springing]]]]

The '''Invisible Pink Unicorn''' ('''IPU''') is the [[goddess]] of a [[parody religion]] used to [[Satire|satirize]] [[Theism|theistic]] beliefs, taking the form of a [[unicorn]] that is [[paradox]]ically both [[Invisibility|invisible]] and [[pink]].<ref name=Angeles1992/> The IPU is a rhetorical illustration used by [[Atheism|atheists]] and other [[religious skepticism|religious skeptics]] as a contemporary version of [[Russell's teapot]], sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the [[Flying Spaghetti Monster]].<ref name=Maartens2006/>

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''.<ref name=Narciso2004/> 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]].<ref name=AbelSchaefer2010/>