The Onion’s A.V. Club sent out a handful of people to ask celebrities, “Is There A God?” and I’m pleased to see some of my peeps were totally representin’:

The Onion: Is there a God?
Conan O’Brien: Yes. Wait, hold on. No.

The Onion: Is there a God?
Sarah Vowell: Absolutely not.

The Onion: Is there a God?
Joss Whedon: No.
O: That’s it, end of story, no?
JW: Absolutely not. That’s a very important and necessary thing to learn.

More interesting to me though, especially given everything that’s happened over the past year, are these two responses:

The Onion: Is there a God?
Andy Richter: I don’t think so. I don’t know. I don’t think about it much, because I figure, what’s the point? I don’t know if it’s agnosticism. There are things that are beyond our comprehension, so why bother? That’s sort of my spiritual feelings. I feel like there might be some design. You can’t think, like, “Well, how did everything get here?” I don’t know. That’s how it is. “I don’t know, next, now what’s for lunch?” When you pray, I don’t think anyone’s listening. Besides other people, I don’t think anyone cares if you murder people or masturbate or shove things up your butt. I don’t think there’s anybody sitting in the sky watching you. You’re on your own. All you have is other people around you, and how you treat them. I actually think that not having a focus on God would make life better, because there would be more of an imperative to be nice to each other. There would be no more brand-name wars over stuff, and pointless arguments over east side/west side, go-fight-win. But I don’t know. People have got to worry about something, and there’s obviously some kind of anthropological, almost zoological need. This particular animal does this particular thing. Instead of constructing a hive out of paper that they chew up, they create a God. It’s just something that they do.

The Onion: Is there a God?
Bill Maher: I think there is. We did a show last night about God and religion with Dave Foley, who I love, and we were arguing against this one woman who had a book called I Like Being Catholic. Someone said, “Oh, boy, a lot of atheists on this panel.” I said, “I’m not an atheist. There’s a really big difference between an atheist and someone who just doesn’t believe in religion. Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need. But I’m not an atheist, no.” I believe there’s some force. If you want to call it God… I don’t believe God is a single parent who writes books. I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish. What they’re fighting about in the Middle East, it’s so childish. These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that they take over this little space in Jerusalem where one guy flew up to heaven—no, no, this guy performed a sacrifice here a thousand million years ago. It’s like, “Who cares? What does that have to do with spirituality, where you’re really trying to get, as a human being and as a soul moving in the universe?” But I do believe in a God, yes.

(Many thanks to Lille for sending me this while we were backstabbing others having a pleasant chat over AIM. Friends send friends quality linkage.)