Name That Logical Fallacy: Unicorns

I'm borrowing a nerdy game that is played on my favorite podcast, The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe.  It's a game called "Name That Logical Fallacy."

Before I started playing this game, learning about logical fallacies, and recognizing them in my daily life, I had a tremendously different outlook on the world.  I would listen to people on political talk radio, or argue with people, or watch TV commercials without realizing how often people, myself included, make large leaps in logic.  If you love arguing, you will want to exercise your logical fallacy vocabulary.

Before we begin, you may want to glance at a list of logical fallacies:

List of Fallacies

Alright.  Name That Logical Fallacy:

"If you're an atheist you don't believe in God.  I mean, I don't believe in unicorns, but I don't go around writing books like:  The End of Unicorns, The Unicorn Delusion, Unicorns Are Not Great... I don't have conferences on unicorns.  There's something a little weird going on here."

-Dinesh D'Souza 

At The University of Minnesota during a debate titled, "Can We Be Good Without God?"

Source: "Can We Be Good Without God?"

Time's up.

To give Dinesh D'Souza the benefit of the doubt, I believe that he was just telling a joke to open up his argument.  He wasn't actually trying to use this as a talking point.  That shouldn't matter since this is only a game and an exercise in critical thinking.  

Sometimes there will be more than one logical fallacy in a statement.  This is partly because the statement may horribly illogical, but it can also be because many logical fallacies overlap with each other.

The Inconsistent Comparison Fallacy is the one that I was able to pull out of this one.  I've also heard this one called a False Analogy (which wasn't on the provided list above).  Mr. D'Souza tried to draw a parallel between not believing in God to not believing in unicorns and presumed that we should treat them in the same manner.  This is a false comparison because people who believe in unicorns do not have the same influence on our culture and society the way that Christians and other theists do.  The size of the population of unicorn believers is also much smaller.

It would be similar to me questioning: why do people protest abortion?  Cells in our body die every day.  Sometimes we intentionally kill cells when we're trying to fight cancer.  These are all cells, and in all of these situations cells are being killed.

  

This is inconsistent because they are not the same cells and, just as in our gods and unicorns comparison, they have different social implications.  Embryonic cells also behave differently, have a different potential, and are treated in a drastically different manner than skin or cancer cells. It would be ridiculous for someone to make the argument that all cells should be treated equally.

Now that I've said what I have to say, let me hear your ideas.  It's possible that I will miss logical fallacies when I do these.  I'm not an expert.  I may even incorrectly interpret the fallacies that I find.