It was a Bill-off on Fox News last night as Bill Maher joined Bill O'Reilly for a five minute debate on the merits of organized religion. Shockingly. the atheist Maher and Catholic O'Reilly didn't see eye to eye on the subject. Nowhere was this more evident than in their different interpretations of the Bible. Maher deemed the text "wacky." O'Reilly took the opposite position, stating that it's full of practical and spiritual advice like "love your neighbor as yourself, and don't call him stupid if you disagree with him politically." And while we're not sure that last one made it down the mountain, we think we see what O'Reilly's driving at. Whether Maher did is another matter altogether.

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Ray Gustini