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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
The Big Lie.
- 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 :)
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
"The Biggest Con of All Time"
Sky Daddy.
Scammy McScam Man
404
Imaginary Sky Man.
The Universe
The writers
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".
"physics"
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
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.
Lain
Asshole
Deadbeat Allfather
Holey Ghost
Sky Wizard
Santa Claus
Sky Wizard.
GOnaD
Hypothetical higher power
Haha that's very concrete and abstract at the same time.
Lol thatβs what I was going for
Who?
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".
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
The origin point of the universe, if we lean into the secular sense
Transdimentional space alien
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").
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".
βDivinityβ. βSourceβ
His Nibs
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.