You should check out Tim Minchin! He's an Australian comedian and pianist, outspoken atheist and extremely smart. Best pieces to start: "Storm" and "Thank you God"
Nobody wants to argue with someone that has answers to your questions as a believer.....go see Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins, like your reactions to Carlin by the way😅
When he says "you believe in something because someone else told you to, i.e. Steven Hawking", that's wat religious people do. Believe in something because of what someone else says...i.e. Bible. So that doesn't work for me. I'd much rather take advice from a well known modern genius who's life's work revolved around the explanation of the universe, next to a book thats been written by man, translated hundreds, if not thousands of times. Just imagine all the ancient rulers who changed it over time to fit their agenda. Burn the old texts and write it in their light to push their ideas. Fuck that book. Its such an inaccurate source for something that important.