Bill Maher Quotes

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...

If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as far as I know, there's only one religion that's doing that, and it is a segment of the religion of Islam that's doing that.

Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed...

Those who committed yesterday's crime, which will have a painful impact on the peaceful nature of our nation, are not only the suicide bombers, but also everyone who instigated or justified the attacks, everyone who called them mujahedeen, even everyone who ignored this irregular direction in our religion and nature, or tried to find excuses for it

It may be politically incorrect to say, but it is nevertheless true that a terrorist today is exponentially more likely to be a Muslim than a Christian.

Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance - encouragement even - is assumed.