Homer doesn't even believe in Jeebus!
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26520387-952,00.html
Yesterday the paper, L'Osservatore Romano, congratulated the show on its 20th anniversary and lauded its philosophical leanings as well as its stinging and often irreverent take on religion.
Religion, from the snore-evoking sermons of the Reverend Lovejoy to Homer's face-to-face talks with God, appears so frequently on the show that it could be possible to come up with a ''Simpsonian theology'', it said.
Homer's religious confusion and ignorance are ''a mirror of the indifference and the need that modern man feels toward faith'', the paper said.
It commented on several religion-themed episodes, including one in which Homer calls for divine intervention by crying: ''I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!''
''Homer finds in God his last refuge, even though he sometimes gets His name sensationally wrong,'' L'Osservatore said. ''But these are just minor mistakes, after all, the two know each other well.''
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