First, Invent a Deity

So the first step is, if you can't understand how something happened, the only logical conclusion is - you invent a deity to explain it. If it's beyond your capability to understand it, that means there's a God.

What O'Reilly leaves out here to some degree are the next steps. Once you establish that there's a deity, the second step is you make fun of and condemn people who don't agree with your point of view. Here O'Reilly gives a good example of this, calling those who criticize him "pinheads."

The next step is action. As in actively going after people who don't share your beliefs. Round 'em up and ship 'em off. As you read this, do you get the impression that O'Reilly would be fine with this? If you don't make the "deity" leap with him, he would be fine shipping you off someplace, or worse. Once you get to this third step, you've successfully shut off all discourse. You have nothing left to learn because you already know everything.

Psychiatrists have a term for this, it's called "self actualization." Where you've reached the point in your life where you have nothing else to gain from therapy. You've got it all figured out, and you are in your ideal state. It's just with people like Bill O'Reilly, that ideal state is an island, populated only with those who agree with him. The rest of the "pinheads" are gone, and the only thing you can see is the moon, the eternal gift of our creator. Amen.

Bill O’Reilly wants to know how the moon got there!

The talk show host — who recently revealed his reason for believing in god: “how else do you explain the tides?” — has taken a a question from a fan to explain the existence of Almighty God.

“Okay, how’d the moon get there? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How’d the moon get there? How’d the sun get there? How’d it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn’t have it? Venus doesn’t have it. How come? Why not? How’d it get here? How did that little amoeba get here, crawl out there? How’d it do it?

Come on. You have order in this universe. You have an order in the universe. Tide comes in, tide goes out. Okay. Yeah, the moon does it. Fine. How’d the moon get there? Who put it there? Did it just happen?

Okay, if we have existence — if we have life on earth, how come they don’t have it on the other planets? Are we just lucky? Some meteor did this? Bunk!

You know, I see this stuff — it’s desperate. I think I’ve said it many times. It takes more faith to not believe and to think that this was all luck — and all this human body and all the intricacies of it, all luck — than it does to believe in a deity.”

[Showbiz Spy]