Comment, on a Yahoo News story on a FoxNews debate about the presence or removal of Tacky Jesus on Big Mountain:

If the statue is removed, then technically there will be an invisible statue to atheism standing in its place. Why should atheism get special treatment?

Salvador Dali created a scene

With “Invisible Bust of Voltaire”

The viewer can see it as plain as the day

But the truth is, no sculpture is there

Invisible statues may come and may go

But of course, we can never quite see ‘em

They seem to be lacking in matter and mass

So they can’t clutter up a museum.

An artist may sculpt an invisible piece

As a tribute to negative space

With a negative body, and negative limbs

And a negative head and a face

And having so done, could display it, of course,

Though I really don’t know why you’d do it—

The time and the effort, the planning and thought,

And the public just walks the hell through it!

Invisible statues hold meaning for some

While others just wish they would go—

Which brings up a question I’m dying to ask:

If it disappeared, how would you know?

I also want to ask her–if I remove the invisible statue to atheism, what remains in its place?

I guess the good news is that the vast majority of the universe, technically, is an invisible statue to atheism. Makes me feel a little better about all those red dots.

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