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“I don't think anything predated Christians”
Category: Stupidity
Posted on: December 4, 2007 7:33 PM, by PZ Myers
Sherri "the earth is flat" Shepherd advances the atheist cause for us once again by demonstrating just how stupid going to church can make you. This time, it was about history: Jesus came before the Romans and the Greeks, the Greeks threw Christians to the lions, and nothing could have preceded Jesus.
It just goes to show, though, that there is no intelligence minimum for the chattering pundit class.
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I wonder how she manages to function with just a brain stem and no brain?
Posted by: pradeep | December 4, 2007 7:43 PM
My brain hurts in sympathy. Of course, any pain in the area of her brain is phantom pain.
Posted by: Ted D | December 4, 2007 7:47 PM
That woman is clearly too stupid to fully appreciate just how stupid she truly is.
In some circles, just the fact that she's survived this long without killing herself could be seen as proof that there is a god.
Posted by: Dan | December 4, 2007 7:48 PM
Oh. My. God.
Posted by: gsb | December 4, 2007 7:51 PM
Wow. That was painful.
Surely there must be a petition to have her removed from the airwaves, in case more of her raving stupidity rubs off onto her already imbecilic fan base.
Posted by: Gonzoisme | December 4, 2007 7:53 PM
The interesting thing is that probably 40% of the United States' population is just as clueless, just as unaware, and just as adamant in their beliefs.
Let's help evolution along for the sake of humanity, and have many, many smart children!
Posted by: pradeep | December 4, 2007 7:55 PM
ugh I can just envision house cows all over the US nodding in agreement with Flat Earth Sherri. How many people watching this vacuous drivel do you think went straight to their computers after this discussion to research the issue for themselves?
Yep.. ZERO
If any aliens in outer space can read this.. I'm ready please come get me.
Posted by: Steve P | December 4, 2007 7:56 PM
Oh, if only something predated Christians.
What do you mean that's supposed to be a long 'E'?
Posted by: rp | December 4, 2007 7:56 PM
It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep that mouth moving.
Posted by: Brett McCoy | December 4, 2007 7:57 PM
Problem is that if aliens somehow intercepted that broadcast, they would think we are the planet of the idiots.
Posted by: pradeep | December 4, 2007 7:59 PM
Arrrggggh! Teh stupid!
It burns!!
Posted by: Larry | December 4, 2007 7:59 PM
Can't they get a female version of those Monty Python guys who hit themselves on the head with two bricks? My brain hurts.
She really needs an evaluation for mental retardation. Anyone, even brought up Christian, should know that Jesus came to save people, which means there must have been people first, which means they can't have been Christians before Christ.
Ye gads.
Posted by: inkadu | December 4, 2007 8:00 PM
I think lions predated Christians in Nero's Rome. Or Greece, according to Ms. Shepherd.
Posted by: argystokes | December 4, 2007 8:05 PM
I think now would be the time for readers of this site to flood her page with perfunctory vitriol,
"STUPID CUNT"
"FUCKING MORON"
"IGNORANT DIPSHIT"
come to mind.
Posted by: Bill C. | December 4, 2007 8:07 PM
Indeed, Sherri Shephard is a high-priestess in the Temple of The Burning Stupid.
Posted by: Dan | December 4, 2007 8:07 PM
My dog Romulus has many good qualities but alas has never said anything that was particularly intelligent. To his everlasting credit though, he has never said anything that was incredibly stupid.
Posted by: Marlon | December 4, 2007 8:09 PM
Sherri, at least allow that Mary and Joseph predated Christ.
Being a stupid Christian is one thing but not knowing that Adam and Eve were supposed to be the first humans? Holy Shit! Was Jesus before them? Get your mythology strait.
And until you do, have the sense to be embarrassed for yourself.
Posted by: Rick T. | December 4, 2007 8:11 PM
Teeny ray of hope department: none of the (first* page's worth of) HuffPo commenters agrees with Shepherd.
*That's all I was willing to expose myself to. Somebody tougher will have to see whether she has supporters at ARN, AiG, etc...
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | December 4, 2007 8:15 PM
I suppose the "logic" is that true religion could not come into being, or change. And given religions' claims, it's not an unreasonable belief.
The only trouble is, all religions, including every last one that is the "true religion," did need to be invented, and thus fails internally (no, I don't want to get into the details and rationalizations), besides failing externally.
Sherri's amazingly ignorant in all areas, it appears, including those untouched by religion. However, she does seem to be especially afflicted by ignorance through her initial glaring error of supposing that religion's claims to "eternal truth" are not lies.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | December 4, 2007 8:18 PM
She doesn't even know her own religion at all. That Old Testament, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Big Boat, Solomon, David and a cast of thousands.
All she is showing is that the median IQ in the USA is 100. There is no doubt which half she is in. She must be kept on to appeal to the IQ 80 demographic.
There is also a chance that she is just plain bughouse crazy. Psychotics often show cognitive defects.
Posted by: raven | December 4, 2007 8:19 PM
pradeep wrote:
And they'd be right.
Posted by: Norman Doering | December 4, 2007 8:24 PM
Why does Barbara Walters who presumably is not stupid keep her on? Does it really improve the ratings to have the most ignorant women in America on her panel?
Posted by: Christianjb | December 4, 2007 8:30 PM
Actual conversation I had with a plumber a couple of years ago here in Austin, TX:
Plumber: (seeing my bookcase full of natural history books) Those scientists keep talking about global warming! They're just trying to make money!
Me: What does talking about global warming have to do with making money?
Plumber: They're trying to sell their books on it! Jesus isn't gonna let global warming happen!
Me: It already is happening.
Plumber: (peering at me with suspicious eyes) You're not a scientist, are you?
At that point I decided, for the sake of my malfunctioning toilet, to change the subject.
I just want to add that, in the Texas Methodist church I was raised in, we were taught that God and Jesus are the same thing, and, since God precedes everything else in time, according to the myth-believers, Jesus (as God) did come before the Greeks and Romans and everything else. I don't believe this, of course, but the majority of people in the US probably do.
Posted by: deang | December 4, 2007 8:37 PM
Actually- what does Shepherd think about all those Jewish people in the Old testament?
Posted by: Christianjb | December 4, 2007 8:41 PM
She's not the only American idiot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
sigh. At least I understand now how Bush got re-elected.
Posted by: Robert Thille | December 4, 2007 8:44 PM
HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! It is impossible to be this fucking dumb. Sadly, she probably earns more than your average biology professor.
Posted by: danley | December 4, 2007 8:45 PM
The privileging of christianity makes americans stupid. Pretty solid hypothesis, I'd say.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 8:47 PM
Sherri Shepherd has to be a poster child for what the Discovery Institute would love to create with every school child in this country.
I can't think of a strong enough synonym for the stupidity that this woman spews. Absolutely revolting.
Posted by: waldteufel | December 4, 2007 8:53 PM
Everything but the first one. No need to turn into misogynists over an idiot.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 8:55 PM
(#8 wins the thread, IMHO.)
If she's not drummed off the show, perhaps we should petition the network to supply captions as needed that say "Warning: She's completely wrong again." Maybe they could be color-coded according to the severity of the error.
Posted by: N. Wells | December 4, 2007 8:56 PM
Re #23: Yeah, Christians are taught that God and Jesus are the same and have always existed. But she didn't say Jesus predated everything, she said CHRISTIANS predate everything. Which is patently ridiculous even within the mythology.
Posted by: kellbelle1020 | December 4, 2007 9:07 PM
Ignorance is the problem-- ignorance that doesn't even realize there's something there worth knowing. It's the key attitude for these people: I don't need to know anything, I'm a Christian! You can even half understand it: if 'Jebus saves' is really the most important thing in the universe to know, all these things the rest of us study and learn (even reading the bible and understanding the outlines of ancient history that locate Jesus, put him in an interpretive context that you could use to understand the religion that grew out of his life etc.) is really pointless. Of course you do need to know how to turn a key in your car's ignition, etc. But that's all important just because you can't get through a day without it. Nothing counts but the practical and 'Jesus'. Shepard gets through her days just fine not knowing anything about history, science, or anything else, for that matter. Once upon a time we expected peasants to be like that (though some, heroically, learned much more). Now, it's encouraged (by some): what, me worry? I'm a Xian!
Posted by: Bryson Brown | December 4, 2007 9:16 PM
Wow. So the old, not-too-good fundamentalist historical view was:
"God created the Earth 6000 years ago. After Adam & Eve got real busy, and there was a flood with a REALLY big ark, God told everybody to kill each other. Eventually a guy named Jesus came along and said some stuff that you should listen to. Except for the he-who-is-without-sin part."
New (Sherri Shephard) fundamentalist historical view:
"Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
Posted by: gg | December 4, 2007 9:17 PM
I looked up here wiki page and she was a comedian before getting a job on the View. So I wonder if she is acting stupid on purpose? You can only imagine the ratings spike they get when she utters something stupid. She could be a classic fall guy type on that show to help boost ratings, maybe? The View is probably tailored to have people on there that appeal to every demographic, and Sherri appeals to the 40% of the people I mentioned before, and probably to a lot of people who just like her because she is sweet, and dumb and being attacked by those "intellectual elites" on that show, such as Whoopi and Barbara.
Posted by: pradeep | December 4, 2007 9:17 PM
pradeep,
Nope, she's that stupid. She attributes her getting the position on the show to her fans' prayers, and has previously said she's not sure if the earth is flat and evolution is false...because of her bible. Exhibit A in the case of how Christianity makes you stupid.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 9:20 PM
Yet another *headdesk* moment.
There have been too many of these lately.
Posted by: Susan | December 4, 2007 9:22 PM
Am now at half a day's worth of Bushmills. Lost count as to what is the actual total that represents some hours ago. Expect my liver will give out before any of this makes sense.
Please, America. Think of my liver.
Posted by: AJ Milne | December 4, 2007 9:23 PM
How...? What about, say, Jews? Dear ghods.
Posted by: Rachel I. | December 4, 2007 9:36 PM
Deang (#21), I live in Austin, and you see why I just replaced my own toilet. Yet another good reason to have some home repair skills...
It's tough during the Joyous Solstice Time to deal with all the warm, fuzzy, red-and-green-velvety stupid all around (oh, and that tradition predated the Coca-Cola version we have today, but with more sex and drunken nakedness).
Posted by: Charles Soto | December 4, 2007 9:47 PM
Ah, Rachel I. . .them wasn't no Jews, them was just Christians waiting to perfect themselves.
I can't believe that any school in this country would allow someone to graduate elementary school with this woman's level of knowledge. It's truly stunning to see her being paid to talk on national TV. I bet her salary could pay for a lot of competent public school teachers.
Posted by: Alison | December 4, 2007 9:49 PM
Once again, "we're not the crazy ones!"
Posted by: Brando | December 4, 2007 9:52 PM
Exhibit A in the case of how Christianity makes you stupid.
This is probably not entirely fair. I'd submit this woman would have been perfectly capable of being a moronic hindu, muslim, or druid, given the chance.
The hell of it is she's got quite a lengthy IMDb page. Apparently brains aren't a requirement for working in television.
Posted by: jimBOB | December 4, 2007 10:03 PM
I didn't realize Atheists had an entry test either?
Posted by: The Physicist | December 4, 2007 10:05 PM
Is Shepherd on the show as the religious-right's smartest representative? ;)
Posted by: Bubba Sixpack | December 4, 2007 10:10 PM
Is Shepherd on the show as the religious-right's smartest representative? ;)
It's between her and Elizabeth Hasselbeck. She can give Shepherd a run for her money on the religio-stupid every so often.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 10:15 PM
but with more sex and drunken nakedness
Not a lot of nakedness around the Winter Solstice in Ye Olde Northern Europe. That's why we get extra drunk.
Great Chtulhu, please eat her last.
Posted by: Graculus | December 4, 2007 10:31 PM
I didn't realize Atheists had an entry test either?
You only have to be smart enough to realise that religion is a scam run by the evil to fleece the stupid.
Really, all it takes is one or two IQ points above "food goes in here" to figure that out.
Posted by: Brownian, OM | December 4, 2007 10:32 PM
A long time ago I said something really stupid. Oh, yeah. Even dressed it up with a little physical comedy.
Placing my bible on the floor, I clambered up on top of it and announced to a rather shocked visitor, "I stand on the word of God! It's all I need!"
O, the retroactive embarrassment! The color rises up my neck and under my beard, which provides little camouflage for the ruddy rush. (Don't tell anyone else, OK?)
Luckily, I got better, thank dog. Does anybody think that Sherri would listen to my story? For some odd reason, I don't.
She, those other gals on TeeVee with her, the show itself, the promotion of such dreck as quality programming and the captive audience accepting and approving are just too much to bear. Been this way for years.
On the tube now: Discovery Channel, The Universe. It's a rerun, but I like it because I gain real knowledge and the quality of awe that it inspires is many orders of magnitude greater than the awe I once felt congregating at Revival Tabernacle back in the day. Yes, that was the name of that church.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | December 4, 2007 10:34 PM
You only have to be smart enough to realise that religion is a scam run by the evil to fleece the stupid.
Really, all it takes is one or two IQ points above "food goes in here" to figure that out.
You're right. Even Homer gets that it's all a scam.
Praise Jebus.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 10:34 PM
They should slap a sticker over her mouth reading, "Sherri Shepherd contains bullshit ideas. Everything she says is a theory, not a fact, regarding any topic at all. Everything she says should be approached with a very very skeptical mind mind, ridiculed carefully, and uncritically rejected."
Posted by: Scooty Puff, Jr. | December 4, 2007 10:35 PM
Can we have a moment of sympathy rather than just easy mockery?
She has little education and was raised by a cult. A lot of people are extremely hazy on history and the most basic science.
Why someone with such limited equipment is put on a TV show I don't know, but maybe that's why the producers chose her.
Posted by: c | December 4, 2007 10:36 PM
Her parents need to be punished for producing such stupidity.
Posted by: qedpro | December 4, 2007 10:57 PM
OMGWTFBBQ
Posted by: Robster, FCD | December 4, 2007 11:05 PM
There's been some fun playing off of "predated" vs. "pre-dated" here, which is all well and good.
But just for the record, it's generally better form to write "pre-dated" for an event which came before another event. I don't know what the "rules" are for it, I just know that convention (which is what mostly matters) favors "pre-dated," no doubt in part to avoid ambiguity.
I wouldn't want anyone to think that "predated" is really the right word to use here (don't bother to find out if it is considered an "acceptable" variant, convention decides that "pre-dated" is preferred), no matter that it probably caused more interest than confusion.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | December 4, 2007 11:09 PM
Amazing, just when I thought they couldn't find anyone more idiotic than Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Sherri's a big girl (nothing wrong with that) but when she dies, they can give her an enema and bury her in a shoebox...
Posted by: Jsn | December 4, 2007 11:15 PM
So, Sherri thinks that Jesus came to Jerusalem before Noah was born?
Posted by: Stanton | December 4, 2007 11:16 PM
So, Sherri thinks that Jesus came to Jerusalem before Noah was born?
Not only that, she thinks there was a Noah.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 11:19 PM
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Posted by: That guy who was always on the TV in | December 4, 2007 11:25 PM
Whoa whoa whoa!!! Some of those comments there blamed the schools. I'm sorry, I have two MAs ... one in history ... but I can't possibly be expected to overcome that level of STOOOOOOPID!
Posted by: dogmeatib | December 4, 2007 11:34 PM
I randomly saw a bit of The View yesterday. This woman asserted that she could not picture voting for anybody who was not "a person of faith". Barbara Walters was trying to push a secular line of logic, Whoopi was baffled, and the other woman was really trying to backpedal away from this line of logic, but nobody really challenged this bigoted notion.
Posted by: RickD | December 4, 2007 11:36 PM
Uh right. Can I nominate her for a fellowship with the Discovery Institute ? Clearly her wisdom and mental ability is on a par with the brilliant minds of the D.I. [/end sarcasm]
Posted by: DLC | December 4, 2007 11:36 PM
This woman asserted that she could not picture voting for anybody who was not "a person of faith".
Most of the nation couldn't picture doing such a thing.
Posted by: MAJeff | December 4, 2007 11:37 PM
"The Greeks came first"? Is that any better than "Jesus came first"? Stupid bitches. They should invite Ben Stein to their show. Then I would actually watch it.
Posted by: Kristine | December 5, 2007 12:01 AM
Please don't take offense, but I find services here at the Church of Atheism a bit dull. The continual chanting of "they are dumb, they are dumb" may induce some sort of religious ecstasy among you of The Elect, but if you are serious about recruitment you might try something less tedious - perhaps a bit of choral singing, or some rolling on the ground and thrashing about.
Just sayin'
Posted by: CapitalistImperialistPig | December 5, 2007 12:51 AM
You speak too soon. Thursday is Pink Floyd day.
Posted by: Kseniya | December 5, 2007 1:04 AM
The weird thing about concern trolls is that they never seem to have considered that we've heard the same lame arguments dozens of times already.
Posted by: Azkyroth | December 5, 2007 1:13 AM
Just sayin'
No one here cares what a moron like you says.
Posted by: truth machine | December 5, 2007 1:17 AM
"'The Greeks came first'? Is that any better than 'Jesus came first'?"
In context? Yes it is. She means "first" relatively and is speaking in very general terms.
Posted by: Numad | December 5, 2007 1:29 AM
Man, this is up there with the people who think that the Bible was originally written in KJV English.
Actually, I'd be willing to bet she believes that, too.
Posted by: Turcano | December 5, 2007 1:33 AM
Well, we all watched it didn't we?
In some cases, several times just to make sure we hadn't misheard it...
Posted by: Brain Hertz | December 5, 2007 1:43 AM
Was there anything before Christians? I'm sure the experts at the Creation Museum would know the answer to that. As such I have sent them an email asking for the real answer. I await the reply with heady anticipation and will keep you all informed should we get the final, definitive answer from the folks that really know.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | December 5, 2007 1:50 AM
I doubt that a single one of those commenting in this thread makes even half the salary of Sherri Shepherd. We live in an environment where Ms Shepherd is the one most highly adapted to the conditions, not the rest of us (despite our wishful thinking). Most anti-evolutionists look at scientists and see people spending more than a decade to gain the qualifications for their job. They see us struggling with low pay and lack of decent long term career options. And they laugh at us and call us stupid.
Until the conditions exist that would allow scientific reason and careers in this field to be rewarded better than pure moronity it might be better if we didn't act so high and mighty about the matter.
Posted by: Sigmund | December 5, 2007 1:51 AM
@#72
Or it could be just you're placing way too much emphasis on equating a person's worth to what they earn.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | December 5, 2007 1:57 AM
Ummm, CIP, be that as it may...she's gut wrenchingly, unarguably dumb. There seems to be a recurring theme, you see?
Posted by: macdhai | December 5, 2007 2:10 AM
Uh... what?
We shouldn't object UNTIL the problem is solved?
Well! That's creative thinking, I'll grant you that much.
Are you really arguing that salary of a TV personality strongly corrolates with their intelligence, education, rationality, the correctness of their statements, or their cultural value? Surely not.
Look. Capitalism is flawed. Huge sums of money get funneled thru the mass media into the pockets of all manner of mediocre talents and celebs. The moronic content of "entertainment" seems to go up every year. Freak shows pay, man, and that's not exactly news. Owners of big tents have known that for centuries.
The only way to reverse the trend (if it's even possible) is to push back against it. The harder the better, if you ask me.
Posted by: Kseniya | December 5, 2007 2:16 AM
I live in Europe but have read enough about this imbecil to realize my cat is a PHD compared to this idiot. It is apalling that this STUPID STUPID women is able to spew her nonsence over national TV for as some say big dollars, and what is worse I imagine there are enough stupid people out in the audience who actually believe what she says
Posted by: Ex Patriot | December 5, 2007 2:35 AM
truth machine, it seems that you are not only factually correct but your choice of tone is completely appropriate here.
(Holy shit it felt weird to type that.)
Carry on.
Posted by: Azkyroth | December 5, 2007 2:41 AM
I feel sorry for her kids, but her too. Can you imagine how small and claustrophobic her world must be?
A trip to a museum of natural history would blow her mind, if she hasn't walled her brain off completely (which sadly seems to be the case).
Posted by: Hank | December 5, 2007 2:50 AM
Kseniya said:
"The only way to reverse the trend (if it's even possible) is to push back against it. The harder the better, if you ask me."
I half agree with you. The point I am trying to make is that we need a carrot incentive to go along with the stick approach that you are advocating. Its all very well (and indeed fun) laughing at this sort of idiocy but the real battle can only be won by creating an environment where the acquisition of education, reason and knowledge are seen as advantageous rather than a hindrance by the majority of the population.
I don't judge a person by their salary (for crying out loud, I'm a molecular geneticist who works on childhood cancer - hardly a steady or financially rewarding career, I can assure you) but lets be honest here, the salary available from any particular profession IS one of the primary factors that encourage many people to choose those careers in the first place. We rationalists rail against cognitive dissonance amongst the religious but lets not lose sight of the fact that we will continue to have a problem to encourage people to chose the path of reason unless we can offer them a better alternative than the current environment provides.
Posted by: Sigmund | December 5, 2007 3:26 AM
Sigmund is correct.
I quit teaching high school math and science for exactly that reason. The kids saw my expertise and knowledge and the fact that I could afford nothing better than a ten year old car. They saw pro football players making more in one year than I would make in my entire life. Guess what they did after school? It wasn't math homework!
Like it or lump it, our culture places money as the gauge of worth and a drugged out, illiterate gangster in a pro football uniform is worth more than any teacher in America to the general population.
The good news? I now make four times what I did as a teacher. How? I'm an ER nurse in a 3-D world: Drunks, druggies and dumbasses. And there is no end to the supply...
Posted by: Logician | December 5, 2007 3:38 AM
What's the alternative, though? Should we all just quit trying to advocate reason? Should science classes be abolished because the young people of today aren't interested in science and there's no money in it? Without miraculously whipping out giant bundles of cash out of nowhere, we're never going to have that "carrot" of which you speak. The world just doesn't work like that. I see no reason to be optimistic that it ever will, either. Half of me wants it to end, to put a stop to this cancerous culture of hatred and ignorance.
Myself, I'd've loved to be a scientist, but my natural talents just weren't up to it (or perhaps I just failed to study hard enough). So now I'm a self-hating computer programmer. It'll never make me famous, it'll never make me rich, and most importantly of all, it'll never make me happy. I got one shot at life, and I failed. I draw consolation, though, from the fact that nine out of ten of those idiots wanting to be football superstars or star actors will also fail almost as miserably as I have.
Posted by: The Ag | December 5, 2007 4:24 AM
She gets to vote and so do her fans.
Remember that and act accordingly.
Posted by: Ugly American | December 5, 2007 5:13 AM
Nobody in the world could be as stupid as that woman seems and still manage to operate within human society. The Darwin Awards would have claimed her long before adulthood.
This MUST be a wind-up.
Posted by: RascoHeldall | December 5, 2007 5:26 AM
Ah. The bronze age burial mounds hereabouts must be another test of faith I've failed, like the fossilized ones in the jurassic beaches.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | December 5, 2007 5:37 AM
After all, how could a comedian make a living if they weren't at least vaguely intelligent? Unless she simply got work because people pointed and laughed at her every time she opened her mouth. Seems very unlikely though, dunnit?
Posted by: RascoHeldall | December 5, 2007 5:42 AM
@81. Nothing about what you've described of your life or career sounds like a miserable failure to me. There are many things that can make us happy in life, and a perfect job and more money are just two of them. And although neither of us can be a scientist, there are people like Dawkins, Greene, PZ, et al out there giving us more knowledge about life, the universe and everything than even some of the most brilliant minds of just a few generations ago had. Buck up, and be happy.
Posted by: p4limpsest | December 5, 2007 6:03 AM
You're all missing the obvious explanation: Sherri Shepherd is a student of the Hellenized Judaic hermeneutics of Philo of Alexandria. If Jesus is identified with the λόγος, as declared in John 1:1, then clearly Shepherd is correct in declaring that there is nothing earlier than Jesus.
We should all be as familiar with Heraclitean philosophy as Ms. Shepherd.
Posted by: HP | December 5, 2007 6:11 AM
It's the producers of The View who have no sense of responsibility at all. Why do they hire such a person ? Do they get higher ratings for displaying such ignorance ? I guess unless viewers send emails and complain, nothing will change. Well, I guess people get what they deserve.
Posted by: negentropyeater | December 5, 2007 6:56 AM
The producers are probably laughing at the offended 'intelligensia' right now. Lets just reiterate once again what they respond to; popularity. They have no interest in being challenging, informative, educational. They can only be popular by keeping to a strict regime of unchallenging, comfortable lowest common denominator fare. The only way to change that? Stop buying the newspapers, stop watching that shit. Eventually, when there is no money in it they have to turn to something else.
Posted by: AllanW | December 5, 2007 8:20 AM
The wierd thing is that The View requiring another host to replace Rosie O'Donnell actually had a choice between Sherri (Praise Jebus!)Shepherd and Kathy (Suck it Jesus) Griffin. Now one of them is funny, intelligent and has a long string of witheringly witty put-downs. The other knows her place and makes Barbara Walters feel superior.
Posted by: Sigmund | December 5, 2007 8:42 AM
"STUPID CUNT"
Yeah because what's really important here is to remind her she's stupid and - worse yet - a GIRL! Ewwww.
Try to keep the misogynistic dipshit in the cage, please.
Posted by: Oh geez | December 5, 2007 8:47 AM
Someone more idiotic than Sherri? Try Chuck Norris who said that he would "Tattoo an American flag with the words, 'In God We Trust,' on the forehead of every atheist.'", if he were Presedent...
Posted by: Jsn | December 5, 2007 9:12 AM
I can empathise with someone managing to be this ignorant of reality.
I grew up going to an 7th Day Adv school in rural Aus. We read Bible stories everyday (at least I know its not all boring crap; hooray Sodom & Gomorah, Elijah kicks some ass).
I don't think I new what a Jew was until I was about 15 and watched South Park.
It really wouldn't be surprising to me that a similar amount of people who believe that God created man and woman personally, think Abraham, Adam, David etc. were CHRISTian, and not the least bit Jewish.
Remember, it's religion it doesn't have to make sense (actually, the less it does, the better, I mean if its so unlikely, it must be even more special, because it happened, it says so in the book, says the book)
Posted by: zayzayem | December 5, 2007 9:52 AM
Christianjb @ #22:
Years ago I saw (I think on Randi's Nova show) a clip of BW on "20-20" interviewing Uri Geller and being awed by his mystical powers. There was also a Nova or Frontline exposing the junk science of those who think extreme autistics can use ouija-board devices to communicate with the help of "guides", which featured a clip of her credulously interviewing the proponents. So I don't presume she is not stupid, although there could be other explanations (maybe she thinks "stupid" sells).
(A better commenter would have found links rather than trying to describe the above.)
Posted by: JimV | December 5, 2007 9:55 AM