Forgive me if this amazing tale of ego and inanity makes you recoil in disgust.
And O’Reilly cites himself as proof there is a God:
“Next time you meet an atheist, tell him or her that you know a bold, fresh guy, a barbarian who was raised in a working-class home and retains the lessons he learned there.
“Then mention to that atheist that this guy is now watched and listened to, on a daily basis, by millions of people all over the world and, to boot, sells millions of books.
“Then, while the non-believer is digesting all that, ask him or her if they still don’t believe there’s a God!”
Mmm-kay. Let’s see…do I still believe there is no god? Let me ponder on it.
I think…no. Definitely not.
Was that exercise in pomposity supposed to persuade me?
cyan says
Yes, it was. In a monstrously egocentric way. What an example of existentialism.
And totally ineffective as a rational way of thinking.
Geoffrey of Ballard says
The only way this makes any sense is if Bill O’Reilly thinks that he himself is god.
Loki says
Doesn’t sound too different from the usual reasons for God, tbh.
Escuerd says
Geoffrey of Ballard @ #2:
Perhaps he left it deliberately ambiguous.
Cranapple says
I don’t know about God, but it might have some relevance to the existence of Satan, if Satan’s goal is really to contribute to mass ignorance and bigotry.
the petey says
this is proof there is no god,
and that there is no justice.
catta says
“All over the world”? Yes, I can confirm that. The rest of the world watches O’Reilly clips on the internet because he’s just made for pointing and laughing. It’s a wonderful arrangement. Since that level of pompous self-importance and ignorance would get him laughed off the air very, very quickly anywhere other than at FOX, we can seek him out for a quick fix of bewildered laughter, slight amusement or outrage and then ignore him again. So in that sense… yeah, he is watched by millions of people all over the world. What’s that lovely word he likes using so very, very much? Oh, yeah.
Pinhead.
Ichthyic says
Bill O’Reilly is a big fat idiot
seriously, the merely obvious is sufficient.
no need to insult us all with the blatantly obvious.
S.Scott says
OK – this is shameless self promotion, but entirely fitting … PZ wins the presidency!
http://car54.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/and-the-winner-is-drum-roll-pz-myers/
qedpro says
what a douchebag.
BillO fails to realize that he’s actually proof there is no god. I mean this is just an example of scum rising to the top of the pond.
Glen Davidson says
It sure is an attempt at justifying getting rich by bullshitting.
Throw in some of the other predatory ways of getting money and power, and you have most of what has shaped Western religion since the time of Israel.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Clintsc9 says
Any god worth its commandments would have smote idiots like that long ago.
So his existence is further evidence of there being no god.
AJ Milne says
There’s a bit from some Rushdie book this reminded me of, for some odd reason. They ask some occult mechanism–Ouija board or some cultural equivalent–if there’s a god. It sits there. They ask it if there’s a devil. Things get lively…
Anyway, so if I understand this correctly, the question is: If a really rather thick, pushy obnoxious jerk with a hilariously inflated opinion of himself and a penchant for blatant dishonesty can have a massive and fawning following, isn’t this proof of the existence of a god?
Umm… Is this a trick question?
Kel says
*head asplodes*
Surely he’s got to be joking there.
Blake Stacey says
Book sales are proof that you’re favoured by God?
That’s one way to make Richard Dawkins laugh all the way to the bank.
Richard from Red Deer says
Bill O’Reilley 5 miilion in book sales is a prime example of P.T Barnum’s edict “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
So this means that O’Reilly has established almost 10 years worth of suckers. Surely for an Irishman of his calibre an extraordinary feat.Take bow Bill.
Shaden Freud says
Wow, I thought Fergie was bad.
LanceR says
Oh! The argument from (false) authority! Gosh! I’m convinced! From now on, you will all refer to me as…
…Kenny!
*just kidding. Put down the rocks, people. Just a little fun… crap.
Aquaria says
Wow, Bill, not only is it Logic: UR doin it wrong, but also Honesty: UR doin it wrong.
Kutsuwamushi says
“Right now, while you were bragging about yourself, a child died of malaria. So…no.”
chancelikely says
That sets a new record for me.
That’s actually the least convincing argument for a deity I’ve ever heard.
Derek says
The next time you meet an atheist, you tell that jibbering commie that his neighbor is making macaroni and cheese! Yeah! If that doesn’t convince him of the existence of God then you tell him that somewhere in the world there is a lady with the sniffles, and had to tough it out at work. She answered some E-mails, drank some coffee, and then took a little potty break around 3:27. She toughed it out and now she’s feeling much better. She is also stopping by the grocery store to pick up some milk.
Yeah… take that you ‘effin atheist! I bet you believe in God now, don’t you? Grovel, you swine!
(Seriously, Bill… you need a helmet.)
Left_Wing_Fox says
The correct reply would be “Oh, you mean Keith Olbermann?”
SC says
This argument probably makes perfect sense to the large numbers of Americans suckled on the Gospel of Prosperity.
Rey Fox says
I think Falafel Man might have missed that part about the meek inheriting the Earth.
Interrobang says
So, uh, it takes the intervention of a deity for an able-bodied white man who spouts the powerbrokers’ conventional wisdom to become rich and successful? Who knew?
On the other hand, maybe O’Reilly thinks Richard Mellon Scaife is God.
Aquaria says
Of course, no thread about O’Reilly is complete without reminding everyone that he doesn’t get just honesty and logic wrong, it’s also Loofah: UR doin it wrong, Phone Sex: UR doin it wrong and Gratuitous Oral Sex Scene in really bad novel: UR doin it wrong.
Glen Davidson says
Quite seriously, in all of his hubris and gloating, O’Reilly does reveal a lot of the mentality of religion there.
It’s a combination of the need to (at least half-) believe that he “deserves” what he has, plus the legitimate sense that nothing about him and his background really explains his success. Look, he has some talent, and a lot of the bluster that gets many far, but he’s not where he is today because he’s very knowledgeable, let alone very often correct.
Most of us with his success would credit luck for succeeding as grandly as he has. Luck, though, suggests that others might be deserving of such a bounty, and few are really willing to spread the wealth, especially if they can credit some divine being for giving it to them. True, most don’t really share the wealth regardless, but Bill is especially immune to any moral claims on his wealth, because God gave it to him.
The fact is that O’Reilly has done what religionists have done throughout history, both “explained” what seems not to have sufficient cause (they don’t understand probabilities, is the main reason), and stated that they deserve what they have even so, through divine dispensation.
In one sense, I wouldn’t be too hard on him for his egomaniacal self-justification, for probably most rich people have some sort of fictional justifications which aren’t much better. On the other hand, the sheer empirical dishonesty of it, and its societal consequences, are necessary to bring out on the social level, and for social reasons.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Ichthyic says
The next time you meet an atheist, you tell that jibbering commie that his neighbor is making macaroni and cheese! Yeah!
Nick Gotts says
Who’s Bill O’Reilly?
Wowbagger says
Known around the world? Well, I know who he is because I visit a lot of US-based sites on politics and the media, but I can honestly say that if you asked people on the street here in Australia if they knew who Bill O’Reilly was they’d only be saying yes if they thought the asker meant the cricket player.
And if he is ‘known’ for anything it’s for being a blowhard, sack-of-shit, lying tool of the Right.
hexatron says
Some shit sinks to the bottom.
Some shit floats to the top.
But it’s all just shit.
another says
That clown should be grateful that there are no gods.
Kel says
You’d hope they would know the cricker anyway. We’re slowly forgetting the greats of the game, at least he has a stand named after him at the SCG
Carlie says
So, BillO is saying that he’s personally such a stupid schmuck that there’s no way in hell he’d be anything other than a janitor if not for the intervention of a higher power? Hm, almost has me convinced there…
ClandestineEnder says
As vacuous as he is, he still can’t even get fundamentalism right. I think by “a god” he meant “my god”…
Nic Nicholson says
“…who was raised in a working-class home and retains the lessons he learned there.”
So tell us Bill, how did it feel to be groomed and indoctrinated into a religious cult? In your case, I guess it took.
Oh well…
Doubting Foo says
Did God tell him where to stick the falafel?
Michael says
the best part is he’s in effect saying that he’s such a poor broadcaster that it’s a miracle he’s so successful
DominEditrix says
Um, Billy, how do you then explain the waaaaay higher book sales of the Harry Potter series? Y’know, the one the fundies have hysterics about because they “promote witchcraft” and “lead children to Satan”? The ones that made their creator, formerly a single mother on the dole, into one of the the richest women in the UK?
Jadehawk says
I’m not sure if I agree more with geoffrey in #2 or glen in #28, but either way: a comment like that would render me speechless, while I try to figure out if i missed something in the speech that would have any relevance to theism.
does… not… compute…
The Cheerful Nihilist says
I see from the earlier thread about YouTube taking down the cracker videos that they have put them back up. Guess what else is still hanging around?
Yup, yer boy BillO!
What a freak! Makes Pete Rooke sound rational. Well, makes Pete sound calm.
AnonCoward23 says
Shouldn’t your anwer be “Yes”, not “No”? As in “Yes, I still believe there is no god.”?
I’m really frustrated by this illogical affirmative “no” to negative questions.
And likewise, by putting punctuation that belongs to the outer scope into the quotes. Like “‘Yes, ‘ he said”, while it cleary should be “‘Yes’, he said”. He didn’t speak the comma, it belongs to the outer scope. It’s more glaring when it’s a quote from a written piece, but I can’t think of an example right now.
shonny says
Since that o’reilly critter is suffering from an advanced stage of rabies, shouldn’t someone put him out of his misery?
Or at least quarantine him?
It seems to be a kind of rabies that is transmitted through TV broadcasting, so expect more outbreaks.
Paper Hand says
Nick Gotts @30:
You don’t know how lucky you are to be able to ask that question.
ChrisC says
I sell books and spout rightwing idiocy. Therefore god is.
Descarts error becomes O’Rielly’s stupidity? What a difference a few centuries makes.
catta says
BillO is the Florence Foster Jenkins of Broadcasting (TM). I suspect that he’s “successful” because he’s awful at what he does. I don’t think the majority of his viewers watch him because they agree with him.
How nice of god. Although, if O’Reilly ever realises that a huge number of people watch him the way they’d stare at a train wreck, would he still be all that grateful?
Timothy Wood says
I think I remember reading something in “revalations” about the anti-christ being a mid-forties white catholic. hmm.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
This is Bill. In early years but still the same guy.
These days he’s taken his rage and ego and pointed it from a right wing pundit’s perspective. He’s famous for gaffs that show him for the blow hard he is.
Mike Haubrich, FCD says
Bill doesn’t make me believe in God, if anything his success makes me believe in Cthulhu.
Timothy Wood says
*fifties
Zar says
Actually, he grew up in a middle-class suburban town. He wasn’t working class at all, unless you consider anyone with gainful employment “working class”. Of course, that would define pretty much everyone but Paris Hilton as working class.
tsg says
Holy crap! How does he get through doorways with his head that big? Does he have a team of interns to help carry it for him? How does he keep from tipping over?
Bill, you are just another self-important talking head with an asshole for a mouth and the only reason you are watched is because you tell people what they want to hear. I could do that but I’d have to undergo a consciencectomy first. And possibly a lobotomy.
Canuck says
Bill O’Reilly is a sack of shit.
shonny says
More a question of ‘what’, – isn’t it, since we are dealing with a life-form that is a bloated hybrid of a cockroach and an earwig (cfr Blackadder).
Nasikabatrachus says
Ah yes, the ontological proof via Bill O’Reilly.
1. BillO only bloviates about the most perfect thing he can imagine
2. God ensuring him book sales and a TV show is the most perfect thing BillO can imagine
3. Existence is more perfect than non-existence
4. From 3, If God did not exist and buy BillO’s books BillO would not bloviate about him
5. BillO does bloviate about him, therefore
Conclusion: God exists and he watches FOX news
Do you STILL not believe in God?
YogaforCynics says
Bill O’Reilly is proof that, if there is a God, he has a sick, twisted sense of humor….
Capital Dan says
Bill O’Reilly may very well be the first person in history to use his résumé as proof of a higher power.
Chris (in Columbus) says
Why can’t I be as humble? Maybe after 50 hail-marys I’ll be half as humble…
Ian H Spedding FCD says
I don’t know about proof of God but he’s certainly proof that H L Mencken knew what he was talking about:
SC says
And as Milan Kundera says in TULoB:
So O’Reilly is evidence against a Creator. Only kitsch provides an escape.
Andy James says
Stunning lack of depth, but thats no surprise considering the source. According to his proof, Hitler would be an even greater proof of God. So would Pauli Shore. Yikes.
Patricia says
Nick Gotts – Who’s Bill O’Reilly?
Dammit Nick – post a warning before you just haul that out.
Now I have to clean up the keyboard, screen and blouse.
He’s Big Bad Bills best “buddie” and head of the popes cheer leading squad. If his minions show up here it will be a killfile fest and at least a four thread slaughter.
lo-rez says
god loves him some inside edition, apparently.
oh and sexual harassment too
John C. Randolph says
If there was a god, a hypocrite like Bill O’Reilly would be a smoking pile of ashes from multiple lightning strikes. QED.
-jcr
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
Loofah
Saint Gasoline says
That’s odd, because by my reckoning a world in which a despicable person like Bill O’Reilly would become famous is more compatible with the nonexistence of a morally perfect God! This disproof of God is otherwise known as the ontoReillian disproof of God’s existence.
patrick says
All i can muster is rofl.
SC says
Ah! That’s what that reference is to! AKA “falafel thing,” evidently.
The Cheerful Nihilist says
Well, here’s an explanation ofBillO’s church.
May explain some of his issues.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
Yeah
Check #4
Falafel is not a loofah Billy.
Rob says
I’m convinced. And that just means that God has a sick since of humor.
The Cheerful Nihilist says
I’ll try again.
And since I see last months Molly winner here and 2 or 3 of this months nominees here, congrats to all. You’re all fabulous. (And if this doesn’t provide a link, why doncha help me out with the HREF= set-up? Huh?)
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
[a href=”PUT YOUR LINKY HERE”]whatever text you want to be linked from[/a]
replace the [ ] with the corresponding greater than or less than signs
TCN says
Drat!
BillO’s church @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k
The Cheerful Nihilist says
Sastra says
O’Reilly’s “argument” for the existence of God is so lame and self-aggrandizing that I suspect even he knows it’s nonsense. He’s making a joke. A lumbering joke.
Later on, if any atheists email him and tell him his argument makes no sense, he will gleefully point out that atheists have no sense of humor, and don’t get satire or nuance.
This looks like trolling. Or maybe I just hope it’s trolling.
Methinks Derek in #22 wins the thread, though, for the apologetics which invoked the woman with the sniffles who toughed it out. Convinced me.
TNSCN says
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM
Thanks for the help, and a banana for your patience, but I am an utter (uder) fool. I’m going to bed.
If I ever figure this out, will it by chance show up in the “Preview” as a link?
Eric Paulsen says
If Bill O’Rielly thinks that his popularity proves that there is a god, I’m guessing that god is one sick prick. He might as well have said that necrotizing fasciitis is an elegant proof of god.
Geral says
After reading what O’Reilly said, I’m actually less convinced there is a God.
Hideki says
Posted by: Rob | October 1, 2008 11:43 PM | #72
>I’m convinced. And that just means that God has a sick since of humor.
And when I die, I expect I’ll find him laughing…
Ick of the East says
In the beginning, God said, “Fuck it! I’ll do it live! I’ll do it live!” And he did. And he saw that it sucked.
Tony Sidaway says
If the Wookie lives on Endor, God must exist.
Tony Sidaway says
Dammit, I think I just prove that Bill O’Reilly is a Wookie, using BillOReillyLogic [tm].
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
Greg Uchrin says
Bold? If you mean incredibly rude. Fresh? ask Andrea Mackris, former associate producer of Bill’s TV show who accused him of sexual harassment–and my cartoon of 2004 at
http://haildubyus.com/2004/10/19/the-official-bill-oreilly-pocket-rocket-only-1995/
Barbarian? I don’t think Attila would have let him on a horse. Working class? Try middle class from Levittown, Long Island. The lessons he learned there? That must have been some dinner table! As for the rest of the non sequitur argument, I can only say, if there is a God, he hasn’t been paying attention.
Murty BVNS says
I dont think he is an egotist. He is an expert marketeer. People think he is arrogant, making noise giving his statement more prominent position promoting his name and books all through socialweb. This is the situation he might be expecting. More noise around him. More search engine listings. We fools running debate here and becoming puppets in his marketing strategy. In my view it is not debate around such statements that will cure him. Just suppress those statements. Make silence around him. Block him out.
R.C Moore says
O’Reilly’s proof for the existence of god isn’t really any worse than all the others I have heard.
Polyester mather DD says
i suspect his antiancephalic stance may stem from the metaphysical certainty that in his previous incarnation as a walrus, he lost both tusks and an eye to an irate Humboldt squid
Janine ID AKA The Lone Drinker says
Using this criteria, big sky daddy loves Oprah Winfrey even more. BillO is lower down in the pecking order.
Damn but Ted Baxter was more humorous when Ted Knight played him.
Jarrad says
I saw a cat today, and Oprah is still ridiculous. Do you STILL not believe this to be proof of god?
Me either, but it still brought me joy.
TCN says
Like this Rev.?
Ron Sullivan says
hexatron, #32:
Some shit sinks to the bottom.
Some shit floats to the top.
But it’s all just shit.
What makes the difference is the fat content.
scooter says
I wouldn’t trade all the book sales on god’s grey Earth for a head that looks like a potato.
Corey S. says
This from a man who thinks he won a debate with Richard Dawkins because atheists have no answer for why “the sun goes up, the sun goes down, tide goes in, tide goes out.” I may be slightly paraphrasing, but only slightly.
Bill must have read this article (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512) on ‘intelligent falling’ and thought it was real.
Janine ID AKA The Lone Drinker says
Jarrrad, I am not saying that I like Oprah. I cannot take all of the woo she pushes on people. But she is bigger than the big giant head. Let the BGH digest that.
If Oprah and BGH is an example of whom the big sky daddy blesses, the big sky daddy is a poor judge of character.
Dahan says
I’m sorry, I’m apparently so dense that I can’t even understand this.
I’m serious here. Is he saying he’s god?
I admit to having had three Rum and Cokes before reading this and being a bit sleepy, but what is the connection that he’s attempting to make between the paragraphs exhibited? I’ll attempt to summarize them here.
1. You know someone who remembers things he was told?
2. This person is popular.
3. Question asked: Why don’t you believe in a god?
Really, is this an actual argument being put forth?
woozy says
I’m sorry, I’m apparently so dense that I can’t even understand this.
You aren’t the only one. I, honestly, can not comprehend it. I *think* it’s somehow based on the idea that as atheists believe in only in a mechanical deterministic world, they can not believe there is any purpose or meaning in life. As atheists can’t believe in purpose and meaning, they can’t believe in personal will or greatness. Thus as Bill O’Reilly is great, athiests have to be wrong. And as Bill O’Reilly is so exceedingly and excessively great, an atheist aware of his existence can’t help but marvel at O’Reilly’s greatness and must conclude that God must exist for such greatness to possibly occur in a human being.
Snark7 says
In fact this is certainly proof that there is a rather malevolent higher being, yes.
Masks of Eris says
A proof for the nonexistence of God:
1. Bill O’Reilly exists.
2. The claim is proven.
resident_alien says
Hideki @ #81 owes me a new keyboard and a Seven-up!
Patricia says
Hey Scooter – Since you’re hanging out on this thread.
“I’ll go home and get my panties,
You go home and get your scanties,
And away we’ll go….”
I can’t remember a damned bit of this, but my grandma & I used to do the Charleston to it, and laugh and sing our asses off.
shonny says
Maybe this could be a good start?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=638389
Ok, Baptists, but the display of displeasure has to start somewhere.
Christophe Thill says
Honest and decent Christians (yes, there are some!) should sue Bill O’Reilly in order to prevent him to claim he’s one of them. He’s the best anti-advertisement for religion.
Anyway there’s only one O’Reilly, his name is Tim, and he publishes great books about computing.
antaresrichard says
Did someone mention scanties? “All aboard the Niagara Limited!”
Nick Gotts says
Honest,
Before starting to hang out here, I’d never heard of O’Reilly. Now I’m vaguely aware he’s an offensive right-wing halfwit (sorry about the redundancy there), but I’ve no idea what he looks like, and certainly couldn’t distinguish him from Bill Hannity.
Justin H. says
Is he talking about Conan the Barbarian?
GunOfSod says
“Next time you meet an atheist, tell him or her that you know a creepy, sexist guy, a barbarian who was raised in a working-class home and retains the love of falafels he learned there.
“Then mention to that atheist that this guy is now watched, listened and ridiculed, on a daily basis, by millions of people all over the world and, to boot, sells millions of books and loofas.
“Then, while the non-believer is digesting all that, ask him or her why they still don’t believe there’s a God!”
There fixed that for ya. Narcisist much?
Kel says
I learnt of him because he was sent up on an Australian satire program.
Funny stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlq1yMF8z28
Darwin's Dagger says
Bill O’Reilly is proof, that if there is a god, he’s smoking crack.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
TCN, you’re close.
Looks like you didn’t close the tag.
Make sure that at the end it has this [/a] with the brackets replaced by less than / greater than signs.
The / is important.
Here is a tutorial.
[a href=”URL”]heres a link[/a]
Marc Abian says
I love that he called himself a bold fresh guy.
When I think of a rebel, someone with a bit of an edge, with a new breezy style, someone who’s not afraid to take on the establishment and still look cool, I think Bill O Reilly.
The Atheist Jew says
Even a theist has to wonder what he would gain by using this as an argument for God’s existence.
Voltaire Kinison says
I think I’ll nominate him for George Hrab’s Religious Moron of the Week.
http://www.geologicpodcast.com/
Voltaire Kinison says
Actually I think it proves that he is retarded.
Jonathon says
A barbarian? HA HA HA HA. Yeah, right.
BillO is a CLOWN.
BAllanJ says
No No No.
You guys have it wrong.
His proof is completely correct, he just left out a couple of steps sorta as an exercise for the reader/listener.
In his “religion” there is not only the necessity for a god, but also for a devil. The only way someone like BillO could have possibly got to where he is is by selling his soul to the devil.
His success without such a being as a devil makes absolutely no sense.
QED
tsg says
Ah, Ebertire.
Based on the vast amounts of bullshit he spouts on a regular basis, I have no trouble accepting that he actually believes this, or at least wants us to think he does. If it is supposed to be satire, he has no idea what everyone else thinks about him.
joolya says
Bill O’Reillay: proof that there is a god, and he/she likes to watch us squirm.
E in MD says
Perhaps I’m just one of those stupid godless heathens but I’m not really sure I even understand Bill’s argument. Is he trying to say that because people listen to him that there’s a God?
Millions of people listen to Bill Maher too. Guess that means there’s no god.
Me says
I live in the UK and my second name is O’Reilly (my grandfather’s name is Bill, heh). I actually feel ashamed to be connected to Bill O’Reilly in *any way*.
And yeah, people in the UK watch Bill. Mostly on the internet. Because he’s just so infinitely mockable, especially when he throws a tizzy and mutes his “guests” because they just kicked his ass in a debate.
Shinobi says
I object to your association of perfectly nice and resonably intelligent “big fat” people with O’Reilly. I think there is another F word adjective that is a much more accurate descriptor of him than Fat.
Feynmaniac says
If anyone else had said something like that I would think much less of them. However, my opinion of Bill O’Reilly is already so low that this comment really does nothing.
If I was Bill I would wonder why God would let Colbert, a man who makes a living parodying O’Reilly, much more successful than himself.
b_nichol says
Of course, his new book ‘A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity’ is just an anagram for ‘Shameful, bona fide hypocrite.’
But you knew that already.
http://tinyurl.com/3es6hl
E.V. says
If I were irrational and a total jerk, I would fantasize about Billo, Sean Profannity and The DittoMeister being forced sodomized by rabid hamster-wielding zombies with a fetish for lemon juice and coarse salt grit lubricant. But since I’m not, I don’t.
Billo meltdown for a demonstration of his intellectual superiority:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtfbISKd8U
mas528 says
Is he describing Barack Obama?
Paul Lundgren says
I think Olbermann might, just might, have something to say about this on Countdown.
steve8282 says
I rhnik Bill has alrady been Geo’s RMOW, Im not sure if he does repeats.
frog says
But O’Reilly’s argument is a good one against there existing a Big 3 O god – omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. She must have an extremely sadistic sense of humor: she proves herself via Hitler and O’Reilly!
Jerome says
You’ve got to be kidding me. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.
Robert M. says
To the Christians among us:
Imagine there’s a religion based on a man. Imagine that that man never wrote anything himself. Imagine that the people who followed him while he was alive never bothered to write about him. Imagine we had to wait 20 years after that man died for someone to actually think about writing about him. Imagine that everything written about that man was written by his followers and by no one else. Imagine that the people among which that man lived (the Jews) never even mentioned him.
Now do you still believe that man existed?
phantomreader42 says
mas528:
Or Stephen Colbert?
I’ve been wanting to reference the song “What would Brian Boitano Do” since I first saw this post, but I just can’t think of how to fit it in. And somebody beat me to the Depeche Mode reference.
noncarborundum says
So true. And yet this is the prescribed method in the U.S. Go figure; we never do anything else illogical.
A neighbor of mine once tried to use my résumé as such a proof, or at least the fact that I had a good job, nice house in the suburbs, happy marriage and healthy young children. Of course, this was before my son was diagnosed with brain cancer. After that, I suppose, the case for God wasn’t quite so good. (The neighbor had moved away by then, so he never had to confront that particular conundrum.)
TCN says
Testing
Thanks, Chimpy
Sman says
It appears that Billo’s “exercise in pomposity” is going to get him the gold in Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World” segment tonight.
NutsInNY says
Thanks for that tasty morsel, Pharyngula…
Bill is one of ours, afterall, so I posted this bit to “Nuts in NY”.
See here: http://www.nutsinny.com/all-nuts/nuts-4-god-at-least-the-barbarian-parts-true
Best wishes,
David Donnell
Katrina says
Bill’s comments made it to the latest “Jesus and Mo“
Ichthyic says
Testing
Thanks, Chimpy
our good Reverend giving advice on CLOSING TAGS!!!
the world is surely coming to an end.
:P
Andy says
What is it with you liberal idiots?When you join the democratic party,do you take an oath to call anyone you dont agree with names and put downs?Saul Alinsky loves your methods of pushing your agenda.Todays democratic party is pathetic and totally un-American.
Nerd of Redhead says
Andy, you open your mouth out comes lies. I am not nor ever have been a member of the democratic party. So stop trying to smear everybody here with that paintbrush. It says something (not good) about your thought processes that you attempted to do so. We don’t have to see the world your way, and don’t because we think for ourselves. Is that what scares you?
MartinM says
Disgraceful behaviour. We should all strive to follow the example of Bill O’Reilly, who never called anyone names.
Yeah, those bastards. Who could forgive the way they’ve trashed the constitution? Suspending habeus corpus, throwing people in jail indefinitely, without charge, trial, or representation, spying on their own citizens and arguing that the courts should not have oversight…hey, wait a minute.
Patricia says
Yes, we do.
So fuck off, blat-ass.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM says
With the economy like it is I can’t afford to keep replacing irony meters.
SC says
Thanks for reminding me, Andy!:
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2008/09/community_organizing_and_the_s.php
yelinna says
A barbarian born in a working class?? Listened by millions of people???
I thought he was talking about Hitler!!
oh, sure, I see now what kind of God is out there…