Godfellas

I was watching Futurama this afternoon (while I was doing my ironing) and it was what I think is the best episode, Godfellas.
The episode surrounds Bender (pictured), he is catapulted into space and goes on an `endless tragic voyage'. It's great stuff. Along the way he runs into an asteroid field and something collides with him and sticks onto him.
It turns out it is a small society and they take to their `metal Lord', one guy in particular, named Malachai communicates with Bender regularly.
Bender gives commandments, well one commandment, that his people build a brewery. It's great to watch as Bender discovers that being God isn't as easy as he thought.
Eventually Bender's interference destroys society and he realises that everytime he meddles something goes horribly wrong. So he decides not to act on everyone's prayers. From there the people take it upon themselves to handle what is going on in the world.
What happens is funny, yet tragic.
Bender then comes across an entity that may or may not be God. He is told that `if you do things right then people won't think you've done anything at all'. That struck me as quite true.
I don't think it is any coincidence that the best episodes of Matt Groening's shows (the other being of course The Simpsons) deal with religion. There's a lot of fun to be had there but I also think that most of the time religion comes up on top.
Bender concludes, once `God' returns him to Earth, that `you can't rely on God for anything' and that you must do everything yourself.
Clearly he hasn't learned anything.