God Revisited !!!

Slate's Deputy Editor David Plotz knew religion in 'bits and pieces' --he knew a bit of this, he remembered a piece of that, the rest he picked up along the way. Then, one day, in adulthood, he goes to a Bar Mitzvah and picks up the good book and opens it and reads and what he reads startles him enough to read more and record what he comes away reading. This record makes for a hysterical series. Here's a, what is known in modern parlance, sneak peek:

Moses leads the Israelites into the wilderness—Day 1 of their 40-year trek. They immediately complain that they're thirsty and the only available water is bitter. We're a grumbling people, aren't we? Freedom after 430 years of captivity, and nothing to do but grouse. The Israelites had crabbed to Moses when Pharaoh made them gather their own straw. When the Egyptian army pursued them to the Sea of Reeds, they had griped to Moses that they would rather have stayed in Egypt as slaves than die by the sea. Now they're fussing that they're thirsty. God gives Moses a piece of wood that cleans up the water—the world's first Brita filter.

The whole series is laced with laugh out loud Brita filter moments, yet never compromising on the serious subtext. Here's the series.
I wish the Quran and Prophet Mohammed were explored in this fashion. But that would mean fatwah and who in thier right mind would be up for that.
ps. left mind?-- okay, okay, juvenile humor :)