Bill O'Reilly Quotes

A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief:

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

No religion can be built on force.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

God save us from religion.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

A religion that requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil’s propagation.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

When a man is required to believe certain doctrines, he is not free to think. A creed is to keep the mind from inquiry. Questions lead to doubt, and doubt is the death of faith.