Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up.

Standby for the O'Reilly update, morning edition.

But first, on this Wednesday, Passover and Easter coming up this weekend, but tens of millions

of Americans don't really care because to them religion does not matter at all and some

despise organized religion.

So the question becomes, is secularism a bad thing if you don't like religion, if you

ignore religion?

Is that a negative?

The answer to the question?

It could be.

Some secular people are excellent.

I know many of them and they do very good things.

But others are greedy and self-absorbed.

And wait, some religious people are excellent, but others are greedy and self-absorbed as

well.

The difference is this.

With religion, organized or otherwise, there is a belief in a higher power.

It is not all about the individual person.

The higher power discourages selfish pursuits, bad behavior.

That is why religion is tempering horrible conduct in many places.

Some secularists don't buy that, but it's true.

If you look at the doctrine of Christianity, for example, harming your neighbor is a

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