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1. figurativelyslangA god.

   Nature isn’t some sky daddy, it’s what makes up reality by definition.

   2011 November 9, Matt Bush, “Nature doesn’t care about us”, in In which I wax acerbic, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2011

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   For starters, having an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of an invisible sky daddy is a bit of a handicap when it comes to assimilating the idea of nightmarish immortal aliens from elsewhere in the multiverse, given that the NIAs in question have historically been identified as gods (subtype: elder).

   2010, Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files), New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PR6119.T79 F85 2010, page 81

   An invisible sky daddy didn’t save all those Chilean miners; real people with science and technology got it done!

   2010 October 14, “Well Said”, in The Good Atheist, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2011

   In the book of fairy tales and myths, a big magical sky daddy delivers the populace his own flesh and blood to get horribly slain so that his resurrected son can become your imaginary bearded hippie-friend.

   2011, E. A. St. Amant, The New Ancien Régime, →ISBN, page 79

   “Magic!” said Billy, clapping his hands with delight. “I talked to my sky daddy. He made a magic dream in your heart.”

   2011, John Leonard Köehler, Billy Blue Sky

   Synonyms: sky fairy, god, godship, deity, divinity, manitou, sky fairy, supreme being

2. derogatoryfigurativelyoffensiveGod the Father.

plural Sky Daddies

1. Alternative letter-case form of sky daddy