Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher said this:

“I preach the gospel of ‘I don’t know.’ And I think people have had, you know, so many religious movies, they’ve had the Passion of the Christ and they’ve had The Robe and The Ten Commandments. Isn’t there time for one, for the tens of millions of people who are rationalists who think like I do and who are afraid that the Sarah Palins of the world are going to be taking over? We’ve had eight years of George Bush and a faith-based administration. We can’t afford another.”
—From an interview with Harry Smith, during an appearance on The Early Show on CBS, 9/29/08

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“It’s a pet peeve of mine, because I’m confronted with this notion that ‘Oh yes, you only go after the extremists, and by doing that you make religion look silly.’ ” Anyone who’s religious is extremist. See, we’re just used to religion. It’s like what Matthew Arnold said about a tree. It’s not that there are no miracles. A tree is a miracle. You’re just used to it. And conversely religion is something we’re just used to. So the notion that God had a son, that he’s a single parent, and the son went on a suicide mission, and you’re drinking his blood on Sunday, that a man lived inside a whale and that the earth is 5,000 years old — all the essentials of religion that are in the Bible or the Koran — we’re used to them. But it doesn’t mean they’re not crazy, doesn’t mean they’re not ridiculous. And so to be religious at all is to be an extremist, is to be irrational.”