The Pope Song by Tim Minchin

An Arab on Arabs

An impressive analysis.

Why does God allow disasters?

The embarrassingly simple answer to the question "Why does God allow terrible natural disasters like earthquakes? is "Because he doesn't exist". Yet for centuries theologians have been tying themselves up in knots trying to find an alternative explanation.

When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle of Occam's Razor recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. While this isn't  a principle of logic, it seems a good kicking off-point. What a pity theologians haven't spent their years of study first trying to answer the question "does God exist"? Perhaps they dimly sensed that this would quickly put them out of a job.

Religion - telling it like it is. . .

"If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them."
 ~ Baron D’Holbach

1723 – 1789 Baron D'Holbach was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was lived and worked mainly in Paris. He is best known for his atheism, and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being the System of Nature (1770). (From Wiki)

Neil de Grasse Tyson - "We are in the Universe & the Universe is in us"

I love that little shrug he does at the end."That's how it is - take it or leave it"