Religulous

Do you smell something burning?

Heaven help us.

Faith means making

a virtue out of not thinking

It's nothing to brag about

And those who preach faith

and enable and elevate it

are our intellectual slaveholders

keeping mankind in a bondage

to fantasy and nonsense

that has spawned and justified

so much lunacy and destruction.

Religion is dangerous

because it allows human being

who don't have all the answers

to think that they do.

Bill Maher:
You are one of the very few people who are actually running this country. It worries me that people are running my country who think-, who believe in a talking snake.

Sen. Mark Pryor:
You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though. [chuckles]

Bill Maher:
Why do you think it is that so few people do what you have done and leave the [Mormon] church?

Tal Bachman, Ex-Mormon:
The moment you acknowledge to yourself that Joseph Smith did not tell the truth about his experiences and his achievements, you just committed social suicide.

Bill Gardiner, Ex-Mormon:
Family and friends.

Geert Wilders, Dutch Parliament Member:
Islam is, according to me, a violent religion. The Qu'ran is a violent book and Muhammad was a violent prophet.

Bill Maher:
Do you think Islam wants to take over the world?

Geert Wilders:
They don't even make a secret about it. We are infidels. We should either become Islamic or we should be killed. That is what they say. That is what they are proud of.

Bill Maher:
The Bible is not against homosexuality?

Franciscan friar:
If you are born homosexual you ought to stay there, you have to, to be happy.

Bill Maher:
But that's what the Bible says?

Franciscan friar:
What the Bible means to say, yeah.

Bill Maher:
What happens in Gomorrah, stays in Gomorrah.

Bill Maher:
Gay Muslim activists. That is a very rare job description. You guys have big ones.

Bill Maher:
You know, Scientologists [sound of audience laughing]. And right, you're like, "Oh, yeah, that's some crazy sh*t. Okay." Jesus with the virgin birth and the dove and the snake who talked in the garden, that's cool. But the Scientologists, they're the crazy ones.

Bill Maher:
There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say "under new management" than it is to change the whole building. I worked a lot of comedy clubs in the eighties that still had the disco ball on the ceiling. And in the nineties they became strip clubs. And now they're a Starbucks.

Bill Maher:
Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?

Bill Maher:
Scientists line up overwhelmingly on one side of this issue. It would have to be an enormous conspiracy going on between scientists of all different disciplines, in all different countries, to have such a consensus.

Bill Maher:
It seems that if God wanted to communicate something to the world - he's all powerful - he would just talk to the whole world. It always seems he picks out a prophet in private and tells them, "Ok, you're the prophet. Now you go tell the rest of the world", so we just have to take it on faith.

Bill Maher:
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people, by irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it.