Peter Boghossian's "A Manual for Creating Atheists" teaches that "I believe in God" secretly means "I pretend to know things I don't know"

Mike references a chart in Boghossian's book that provides "secret translations" for religious language — e.g., when a Christian says "I believe in God," Boghossian says they really mean "I pretend to know things I don't know about God." Mike argues this framing makes real dialogue impossible because it pre-emptively dismisses any evidence a Christian might offer.