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~ Creating a god Singularly infinite As all that there is ~ This sparse three-line poem operates as a philosophical argument compressed into near-mathematical brevity. The opening phrase "Creating a god" immediately positions divinity not as a pre-existing, eternal given but as a 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 concept — something brought into being by an act of human imagination or cognition. The verb "creating" is doing enormous work here: it strips god of ontological independence and places the origin of the divine squarely within the act of making, suggesting that deity is a product rather than a source. The second line, "Singularly infinite," introduces a paradox that is central to classical theology — the idea of a being that is both one (singular) and boundless (infinite). This phrase mimics the language of religious metaphysics, echoing traditions from Aquinas to Vedanta that describe the divine as an absolute, unified totality. By invoking this familiar theological vocabulary, the poem appears to be constructing an orthodox god — but this is a feint. The third line, "As all that there is," delivers the philosophical detonation. By defining this singular, infinite god as coextensive with 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, the poem quietly erases the distinction between creator and creation, between worshipper and worshipped, between the sacred and the mundane. If god 𝘪𝘴 everything — every atom, every grief, every accident of matter — then god is not a being one can petition, obey, fear, or love in any relational sense. There is no altar you can approach because you are already standing on it; there is no prayer to offer because the one praying and the one receiving are identical. This is the poem's subversive move: it grants religion its grandest claim — an infinite, singular god — and then shows that such a god, being indistinguishable from total reality, renders religious practice, moral commandment, and institutional faith not merely unnecessary but categorically incoherent. The poem doesn't attack religion; it dissolves it from the inside.