"What are you doing for Atheist Day?" "Nothing." "Oh, Orthodox, eh?"

“Atheists’ Day is about NOT buying something.” “Challenge ACCEPTED.”-Hallmark.

Millennial here. The last time I was in a church for anything other than a wedding or a funeral I was 7. There’s nothing like sleeping in on a Sunday morning.

I'm an atheist and always have been.

And most of us are closet cases. Outspokenness brings a price with family and friends and neighbors. Your courage and honesty are welcome.

I'm an Atheist, and I approve this message

I live in a rural area by choice, and I am surrounded by Catholics, and Apostolic Christians...I always thought that they were quaint...NOW, I'm actually afraid of some of them. I asked for an estimate on concrete and he came with a bible...I have ornamental gargoyles in my yard and was recently why I have devils in my yard...they really are starting to scare me...

"Holy Ghosting" I'm gonna use that 🤸🤸🤸🤸

"... their idea of hell is a coffee shop with no wifi.." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The one chick yelling YEAH at Easter had me rolling.... lmfao

Hey, I like that reply "I don't believe in ghosts" and will use it from now on!

I've watched this several times. One of my favorite Maher segments of all time.

My Catholic mother, who thought you would burn eternally for eating meat on Friday but otherwise lived a life that would be called evil by every standard, used to love to make a show of "giving up" something for Lent. Every year, even when I was an adult she would demand "what are you giving up for Lent?" I finally told her, "I'm giving up being Catholic."

I've always been on board with Bill, but I strongly disagree with acknowledging Ramadan in public schools. No. BIG NO. Keep religion out of schools.

Born/raised Catholic, which is WHY I became a devout atheist.

Thanks for sticking up for us Bill!!

03:49 Ironically the nun holding the ruler with which to 'beat you for being left handed" (that really used to be a thing), is holding the ruler in her left hand. Sinister!

I like how the "no not the nun who used to beat you with a ruler for being left handed" was holding the ruler in her left hand.

I am a believer from Pakistan and I love Bill Maher. And I am happy to be used as an example that you don't have to agree with someone to find them funny. I love all the Abrahamic Religions and I find it extremely funny how Bill makes fun of all of us.

Proud to be a NONE!!!!!

"I wish God were alive to see this." -- Homer J Simpson

This is why i still respect Bill immensily, he is one of the very, VERY few public personalities who have the balls to openly speak against religion, on a big TV network nonetheless, in HIS SHOW. ALL religions, he isn't just making fun of Christian conservatives and then kissing the feet of Muslims like most liberals these days, he is is a true anti-theist, and those are needed more than ever.

A couple of weeks ago I had a visit to the local ER. Sent a Christian lady, volunteer, out of the room crying because she questioned my religious affiliation. Why should I be made to feel guilty? She f*****g asked. Thanks for this monologue!😅

"holy ghosting." Excellent.

I remember meeting an american tourist here in Portugal. We were talking about politics and I remember him saying something like: "If you want to get into politics in the U.S, the first thing you gotta do is to be religious...even if you're not" 😅

Love this! You never get old, and/or become outdated and obsolete.

About time someone called out mythical religion. It's all false promises

Amen to that!!! 🤭 I live in a Canadian province where religion has been pushed out of public life and government since the 1960s. We still have the "religious" holidays but we love them because we have days off work, lol! Religion is never a topic. As it should be. ☝

The joke with "holy ghosting" was underrated by the audience

"it's like adding another Mother-in-Law", 🤣

Amen! 🤣🤣 Thank you for saying what a good many of us have been silently shouting (less violent than the masses of course) 💚

Religion is like professional wrestling. It's completely made up, but it still draws a huge crowd

This is why we have Festivus. A festivus for the rest of us!

Love you Bill. When asked by my Christian friends, will I go to church with them… my response is… I only go to church for weddings, baptismals and deaths…. And not my own!!!!

Humor always gets the point across! Religion should have nothing to do with government and should be limited to the private sphere.

This is the best New Rule in a long time

"It's called faith because it's not knowledge." - Christopher Hitchens

"No corpse reanimation" LMAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am a older millennial (born in 1984). I have been an atheist for 21 years (since 2002). It would be nice to have a day dedicated to atheism. But ultimately it would be just another day to relax like a Sunday, but without the church service.

"At least there's no songs, or funny hats, and there isn't a day when we get together to compare clothing..." -George Carlin. May Joe Pesci bless us all.

Festivus for the rest of us. 😂🎉

As an atheist, i appreciate this. One more day of watching Netflix ❤

The growth of Atheists is the only statistic I ever see which leads me to beleive people have actually gotten smarter over time.

I loved the punchline: "Ask Tiffany Trump".

I’d love atheist day! It should be in August because I don’t think there’s any holidays in August here in the US.💁🏻‍♀️

This is a great message! However, as a joke, we do get a day……….every week! It’s called Sunday. LOL

My grandfather was born in 1898 and was born a lefty. The nuns in his school would smack his left hand with a ruler whenever he used it to write with!

Egg shortage and hiding them in the yard...actual LOL!

I used to be religious. Then around ten, I started thinking.

Brilliant Bill!!! PLEASE.... let's make it happen. I've never been able to find money to support a charity but this, I'd find a way to support this fantastic idea.

I believe in the Holy Trinity: Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins

"I don't want to make baby Jesus cry!" "Why? Is he sitting behind you on a plane?" Whoever wrote that deserves a raise.

Bill, if there is a set "Atheist day,"...it will become about buying something. There will definitely be merch made.

The Scots already have an Atheist Day - it's called Hogmanay (New Year to you). As Billy Conolly once put it, "It's like Christmas, but without God to bugger up the proceedings.". In much of Scotland and bordering parts of England, it's much bigger than Christmas or Easter.😆

From the web: Atheists are certainly free to run for Congress, but a recent social media post said they "are prohibited from holding office in 8 states." The states highlighted in an accompanying U.S. map are Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Yes please to Atheists day, sometime in summer would suit me fine. 😊🙏

We’re OVER half of the population here in the Netherlands who consider themselves non-religious.(58%). But the thing is, the other 42% is not acting all superior like the religious people in the US. And that’s how you get much more understanding for each other: just act normally and respect other people’s feelings, views, ideas and beliefs. You do not have to agree with everything, but you sure can respect each other. ……But it might be a few centuries too soon for you guys to really understand that……

Spot on!!!

I love bill,he tells the truth.. Period!!!

It’s interesting how the exact opposite has been true in Western Europe for some time...being openly religious is often a liability for aspiring politicians.

“And please G-d, no fruit cakes” 😂

I live in the suburbs, west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is an extremely conservative area. Here you are asked which church you attend, not if you attend church. In the past, if you mowed your lawn on a Sunday, your neighbors would tell you to stop because it's a sin to work on Sundays. That has stopped in the last 20 years. Progress. I am the only atheist at my job and one of two people who vote for Liberals. I think the other guy is turning to the dark side, though. It is very hard being the only progressive and the only atheist most of the places that I go, even among friends sometimes. Atheist day would be the best thing ever.

I've been watching Bill Maher since I remember. He f. Cracks me up every time and he tells the truth

Three of my favorite quotes: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful". Seneca, Roman orator, philosopher and historian, c.37 B.C. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”- Carl Sagan, American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator …”It is a matter of no small curiosity to me that the obscure, rambling non-sequiturs of a bronze age desert tribe (whose only claim to fame is that they managed to record their disjointed thoughts) should command the attention of anyone but scholars of antique literature. And yet, supposedly rational and well-educated folk continue to overpraise the bible's homely advice on getting along with each other and to swallow whole its second millennium BCE explanation of the universe. It is a conundrum.”… American Prof. Bart D. Ehrman, biblical scholar specializing in Christian history 0-300CE. "President John Adams signed the TREATY OF TRIPOLI, "Quote, 'The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.' That was ratified by the United States Senate without debate unanimously in 1797."

Every time I have a problem the 1st thing I do is find someone who worships gods from the bronze age and ask what I should do.

I’m a Christian, and I despise the commercialization of the Christian holidays. Heck of the holidays really.

Walmart and Home Depot are now open on Easter Sunday, Thank god!

Canada loves you bill 👍

Politicians who proclaim religious beliefs are viewed with alarm and suspicion in Australia.

I only get two days off a week, I'm not spending one of them in someone else's house singing bad songs, and worshipping a ghost. Ain't no one got time for that.

Thanks bill. Well done.

I'm a born and raised non practicing Catholic and I approve of this message. I've always been Agnostic. Can't we all just take the good out of religion and leave the other crap behind? Is it that hard?

Someone finally took the words right out of my mouth. Thanks, Bill.

I'm in... I put god in with Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, and Leprechauns.

Oh, Bill got me on “why make us a mythical being who is disappointed in you? You’ve got your wife.” LOL

Religion is for dying and the grieving.

As a former christian, I too have seen the irrational side of faith. I too am an atheist but can tell almost no one I know. I am so much more at peace and enjoy life now but it took years to get here. I was raised with the guilt and unforgiveable sin of denial. Our country's history of the Puritans leaving England is forever engrained in our system.

Here’s an idea for an atheist holiday Higgs day (July 5th) A day of celebration of finding the Higgs Boson

My atheist family have celebrated Festivus (23 Dec) and Analog Day (29 Dec) for almost 2 decades…

LOL, that bit about the nuns hitting left-handed kids with a ruler WAS actually a thing. My mom is a lefty and she used to tell me stories about how her teachers would force her to write with her right hand and would bust out the ruler if they caught her switching back to southpaw. Eventually my grandfather had to just tell the teachers to suck it, but I was surprised how much effort was put into curing the illness of being left-handed. Conversion therapy sure didn't work... But mom has learned how to cope with her handicap and is living her best life.

Great Bill--They can't handle the truth 😇😇 🤦‍♂ 😁

I gave a 'like' after only 20 seconds into this clip. "Some mythical daddy figure judging and condemning me for the exact person he made me." I had to write this down so that it is in my PC's memory. So that I can quickly find it again to use this too.

I always tell people I'm not religious, and most of them leave me alone, which is the best part of being not religious.

As an atheist every day is my day

I’m not religious but I’m a fervent zealot for a holiday Monday 🎉

What about agnostics? We’re too confused to have a day.

Atheists day should have programs and tv shows that address how EACH religion is a lie.

Has anyone seen that movie called 'RELIGILOUS' ? It was made by some bloke called Bill "Something-or-other". It is a testament (woops) to the idea that one person can make so much good sense.

2:34 As a necromancer, I feel personally attacked.

I missed this Bill

FINALLY!!!!! 🐾🐕🐶 Been since 7years old

I suffered for 5 years after a hernia repair at my VA hospital. Severe abdominal pain, tearing sensation. I went through multiple MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds for those 5 years. Couldn’t find anything. Than several months after my wife passed I was at the same VA hospital for a colonoscopy. As I lay on the table waiting to be to under I heard my wife’s voice and felt her presence. She said “ honey this is going to hurt, but it’s the only way they will find the problem. At that moment it happened the instrument used for the procedure perforated my colon. The gastroenterologist said that never happened to him before. It was like the instrument had a mind of its own. After the repair the surgeon said that I got a 2 for 1. He fixed the 1 1/8” hole in my colon but found something’s out of place. He said it must have been causing a great deal of pain. That was a year ago and have been pain free since. They aren’t ghost by spirits.

There is such a day - the Festivus for the Rest of Us.

"Not the kind who used to beat you with a ruler for being left handed." - shows picture of a nun with a ruler in her left hand.

Yep I thank god every day for my parents not bringing me up religious

Bill pushes buttons, especially the truth button.

At least one day would be nice, but the odds of that happening here in Alabama are none. 😄

I have a ps5 and 2 dogs, those are pretty much the only things I worship.

Love Bill ranting about religion ❤

I'm 71 years old and have been an Agnostic since I was 14. I went to Catholic School but I figured it out myself. I define my Agnosticism as : I'm smart enough to know I don't know the Secrets of the Universe! And anyone who tells you they do are either full of Crap or after your money!