[YHAOS]

“What would be your reaction to someone trying to convince you of a religions based on a claim that there are talking pink unicorns on Jupiter?”

I’ve understood unicorns to be white. Not true? Otherwise, should they exist at all, I doubt unicorns can exist on Jupiter, given the gravitational and atmospheric conditions there existent, while their presence on Earth is entirely plausible. So far as we know, unicorns (talking or otherwise) do not exist, whereas serpents and donkeys are anything but mythical. But, you seem to feel you have to double down on your proposition to make it “fantastic” enough for it to be suitable to your purposes.

“I have yet to find someone who will explain to me why a religion must be based on fantastic tales of talking snakes and donkeys and people living inside a fish for three days.”

That may be because you have yet to find anyone, at least of Judeo-Christian belief, who hold that their religion is “based” on snakes and donkeys who talk. They seem more drawn to the two Great Commandments and other fundamental beliefs, some of which I mentioned some time ago, and none of which seem to provide an adequate opportunity to start a fight.

[kosta50]

That may be because you have yet to find anyone, at least of Judeo-Christian belief, who hold that their religion is “based” on snakes and donkeys who talk.

Without the talking snake there is no Fall and no need for the Savior. It doesn't get much more central than that. The talking snake is the sinlge most central theme that "explains" why God had to kill God to save humanity.

[kosta50]

I’ve understood unicorns to be white.

But could they be pink like flamencos?

Otherwise, should they exist at all, I doubt unicorns can exist on Jupiter, given the gravitational and atmospheric conditions there existent

So, the only existence is in the form found in temperate conditions? Why? There are soft-tissue animals living in the deepest regions of the Pacific Ocean, a couple of miles deeper than Mt. Everest is high!

They live conditions of excessive pressure, darkness, cold, or heat (in volcanic openings on the sea floor). There are living organisms found in acid media in the Yellowstone Park where our "normal" living organisms, including us, would be terribly damaged and killed.

Our stomach lining produces acid that dissolve bone, and even tougher material, yet it is resistant to it.

So far as we know, unicorns (talking or otherwise) do not exist, whereas serpents and donkeys are anything but mythical.

So are talking snakes, talking donkeys and people living inside a fish  stomach (in absence of air, bathed in hydrochloric acid, and subjected to crushing smooth muscle contractions) for days and then being able to tell about it! (mental note: Jesus apparently believed the story of  Noah according to the Bible)

But, you seem to feel you have to double down on your proposition to make it “fantastic” enough for it to be suitable to your purposes.

Well, it is just as fantastic, if not more, than the pink unicorns on Jupiter, especially since there is no other recording of animals possessing (a) speech and (b) human intellect, except in the Bible.

That may be because you have yet to find anyone, at least of Judeo-Christian belief, who hold that their religion is “based” on snakes and donkeys who talk.

Well, without the talking snake in the Garden there is no sin, and without  sin there is no death, and without death there is no need for a Savior. And you tell me the belief in a talking snake is not central, better yet essential, to Christianity?