Bill Maher Quotes

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

As far apart as they are theologically, Mormons and evangelical Christians may have more in common with each other anthropologically than they do with secular Americans watching 'Big Love' on HBO.

I now believe in God for my own ends. I'm not an altruistic Christian - I'm only doing it in case there is in fact a Heaven.

Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. Now I wonder why we're f-ked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the f-king book.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

Heaven is the presence of God.

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.