Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher clash over
morality and the Bible
Fox News,
by
David Spector
Original Article
Posted By: minuteman,
9/15/2025 7:12:28 AM
Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher sparred over morality and the Bible on "Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime" Friday, and the conservative Orthodox Jewish commentator received an unexpected reaction from the liberal comedian’s Los Angeles audience. Maher, the star of the anti-religion documentary "Religulous" and a well-known atheist, said the Bible contains "nonsense" and "wickedness."
"If God wrote the book, how could there be ‘things we don’t agree with?’
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
starsNstripes 9/15/2025 8:11:01 AM (No. 2004109)
Why would Bill Maher (atheist) and Ben Shapiro (Orthodox Jew) discuss the Bible? Even more illogical, why would anyone watch/listen/read what they had to say?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/15/2025 8:20:56 AM (No. 2004115)
I love Shapiro's paraphrasing the old criticism of 'W' Bush, 'He was born on third base, and thought he hit a triple'. Shapiro's argument asking, 'From where do you think the foundations of your morality arise?' He is correct - Judeo Christianity's Bible.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 9/15/2025 9:08:07 AM (No. 2004129)
Double down on stupid..Maher that is...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/15/2025 9:59:38 AM (No. 2004155)
Fact: Maher admits that he is more of an agnostic, unsure of whether God exists, but very critical of what he calls "organized religion."
Look it up.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/15/2025 10:00:32 AM (No. 2004156)
Hey Bill, who holds atheism as the "State Religion?"
And what great country, that you would live in without hesitation, has at its core, atheism?
What Protestant Christian nation has a murder record of its own population comparable to that of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc.?
Are you getting the point here?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/15/2025 11:49:27 AM (No. 2004197)
Talking to Bill Maher is as useless as talking underwater to a fish. His IQ is insufficient to handle complex conversations about life, death, freedom and religion.
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#1 Well, Shapiro is a smart guy. Charlie Kirk's last podcast features Shapiro. It was very interesting.
Also, I don't know about your Bible, but my Bible was pretty much exclusively written by Jewish people. It notably is largely about Jewish people. So they are certainly worth listening to.
Now, Maher, a lapsed Catholic, I tend to agree he doesn't have much to offer. But his was the argument position of a lapsed person, so he, too, has a viewpoint (while I disagree with him) we need to understand.
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Re #1 and #7, interesting discussion. "According to AI" the first five books of the Old Testament are literally the Torah and the remaining books of the Old Testament are Jewish texts considered by the compilers of the Bible as leading up to the Christian revelation described in the New Testament.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mariboo72 9/15/2025 4:13:41 PM (No. 2004284)
"If God wrote the book how can there be things we disagree with?" What a stupid question! Because God is omniscient and we are fallen, sinful human beings who most often want to believe the lies of the devil rather than the truth of God'swords.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 9/15/2025 4:50:39 PM (No. 2004294)
Maher has relatively minimal morality, it seems based on his own running mouth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
minuteman 9/15/2025 5:55:14 PM (No. 2004311)
Additionally, all books of the New Testament, with the exceptions of Luke and Acts, were written by Jews.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cartcart 9/15/2025 7:07:36 PM (No. 2004321)
The clash is between one moral man and one immoral man. Both live in different worlds.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franco 9/16/2025 2:06:17 AM (No. 2004407)
#8: Your AI source must have been informed by a believer, as it's on target. In Shapiro's case, it's pretty obvious from his remedial education for Jews about Hanukkah (see 1 and 2 Maccabees) that he's read all of the Old Testament, which is basically Jewish history up to Jesus' birth. Sad that too many contemporary Jews only know the first five books. Though Shapiro may not view Jesus as the Messiah, it would also not surprise me to learn he's also read the New Testament as well.
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