If you believe that the world is going to come to an end – and perhaps any day now – does it not drain one’s motivation to improve life on earth while we’re here?
BILL MAHERReligion, 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.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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I don’t respect religon. I don’t respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.
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Just honest. To me, being ‘politically incorrect’ means the opposite of being political — which means to spin everything. That’s all it’s ever meant to me. It’s never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.
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As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.
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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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The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity – mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism – mumbling to the wall, Islam – mumbling to the floor.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
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I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.
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I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it’s your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?
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I don’t say that I’m an atheist. I don’t like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don’t know. And if you don’t know – and you don’t – just man up and say you don’t know. Don’t turn to silly stories and ancient myths.
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Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.
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Men are only as loyal as their options.
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If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.
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Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious.
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To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
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If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.
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The “Power of One” is a slogan–not a goal.
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I’m for the death penalty, I’m pro-abortion, I’m pro-assisted suicide, I’m pro-regular suicide. Anything that’ll get the traffic moving.
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Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.
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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
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Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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Curious people are interesting people, I wonder why that is.
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I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
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When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.
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Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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It’s not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That’s predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
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If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
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