Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
BILL MAHERIn America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click ‘I Agree’.
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America is like a dog. I’m sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can’t actually explain issues to a dog.
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Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It’s kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald’s and not eat the fries on the way home.
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If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.
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Maybe a president who didn’t believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.
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When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they’d said or did when they were in office.
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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
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Who takes care of their people better? FEMA or Hezbollah?
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Death is nature’s way of killing you.
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They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.
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Some people think I enjoy debate. I don’t. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.
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Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.
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The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
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Have you ever met a war you didn’t love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?
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