In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.
BILL MAHERIn an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.
BILL MAHERI feel like I’m wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.
BILL MAHERI 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.
BILL MAHERI think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
BILL MAHERDid you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!
BILL MAHERWe need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.
BILL MAHERYou can’t pray away global warming, and that’s the difference between religious people and sane people.
BILL MAHERI think what’s dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.
BILL MAHERIf you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.
BILL MAHERTrusting 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.
BILL MAHERHalloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.
BILL MAHERThe church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
BILL MAHERWhen opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.
BILL MAHERTo most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click ‘I Agree’.
BILL MAHERWhat I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don’t call him stupid because they don’t agree with you politically.
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.
BILL MAHER