Bill Maher Excoriates the God of the Old Testament — and Says Worshiping Him Is ‘Insane’
When recently asked by The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel if he ever thinks about “Pascal’s wager” — the notion that he could be wrong and dooming himself to hell by rejecting God — Maher said, essentially, that that was the least of his worries.
“Of all the reasons to be religious, that is the one of the dumber ones. What if I’m wrong? If it is the God of the Old Testament, I am so ***** already, and you and everybody else,” Maher said.
He continued, “A more psychopathic character you will not ever find in fiction. Just the idea that people worshiped the God of this Bible is insane. There is no more psychopathic mass murderer than God, so good luck with worrying that you picked the wrong religion, you’re going to suffer for it.”...