Excuse for horrible actions.
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Not what I was looking for, but I did chuckle. Would probably look good on a t-shirt.
Sky Daddy or his more accurate title of βFictional Tyrant with bad Temperβ
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The Big Lie.
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
- Random Chance
- Cause and Effect
Depending on the situation I guess.
I think, otherwise, the only time I invoke a higher power is when I swear :)
Sky Daddy.
Scammy McScam Man
"The Biggest Con of All Time"
The Universe
404
The writers
Imaginary Sky Man.
If you're talking specifically about the Jewish deity, I generally use "Yahweh". As that is the name ascribed to him in Jewish mythology. If you're speaking of a more general deity, I tend to use "RNG". This being the acronym for the "Random Number God".
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I like Bo Burnham's titles (both from the song Rant):
"The Blue-balled Anti-masturbator" and "The Great All-loving F*ggot-hater"
Edit: the instance removed the hate speech (which I was simply quoting and don't condone) so I censored it
"physics"
Nature.
The Great Non-Being
The Great Green Arkleseizure
Hey you sass that hoopy, atlasraven31, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
Asshole
Deadbeat Allfather
Holey Ghost
Sky Wizard
Santa Claus
Lain
Sky Wizard.
Hypothetical higher power
Haha that's very concrete and abstract at the same time.
Lol thatβs what I was going for
I mean, I do technically feel all of these names implied when talking about God, but none of them I "call" God. I guess "supreme being" would do it, I use that often even in church. I'm surprised your list doesn't have the likes of "grand unified theory", "the great white hole", "the sun", "sol invictus", "the man behind the pixels", "time incarnate", or "Morgan Freeman".
Who?
GOnaD
The Logos
It's been a while, but I think Max Barry came up with Global Unified Deity in Jennifer Government (great book, by the way)
Dave
ET
Imaginary friend
Since I just learned the word jocular right now, my answer is Jocular.
"All I said was that piece of halibut was fit for Jocular".
Transdimentional space alien
βDivinityβ. βSourceβ
al-AαΈ₯ad ("The One") is nice. It's one of the 99 names of God given in the Qur-an. Coincidently, it's close to my younger cat's nickname: "One" (short for "Little One").
His Nibs
The origin point of the universe, if we lean into the secular sense
The big dog
Jeezo
It's not abstract at all, but my favorite is the Living God. It's an old one (Elohim khayyim), but I strongly empathize with the sentiment: if there is a God, God must be alive. She must be able to do things--God must have volition. He isn't just a product of natural order (e.g., the Sun). He might be a prick sometimes, but His actions are better than chance. If your god is a coin toss, your god may as well be a coin toss. Whichever God demonstrates Her existence is the real One. Everything else is make-believe at best, a long con at worst.
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