Who’s Sitting in the Empty, Invisible Throne?

A theist is like the owner of an empty apartment who insists that, on the contrary, his home is furnished with an invisible, intangible throne more magnificent than any mere physical chair on Earth.  He claims to sit comfortably in that chair by the spiritual fire, with his dogma curled up cozily at his feet. 

But an assertion is not a chair. 

A metaphor is not a chair. 

A belief is not a chair. 

Freethinkers are merely those people who observe that there is nowhere they can sit.