Sherri Shepherd Doesn't Get That Whole BC Thing, Insists "Jesus Came First"

For whatever reason, the ladies on "The View" were discussing ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus this morning. Naturally, talk soon migrated to the topic of religion, and Sherri "I don't know if the world is flat" Shepherd came out to play. More specifically, to spew ignorance and a complete lack of understanding of basic world history! Discussing whether Christians were around during Epicurus' time (Epicurus lived from 341-270 B.C.), Sherri chimed in, "[The Greeks] had Christians 'cause they threw them to the lions."

When Whoopi tried to cautiously navigate her through the timeline of basic world events, saying, "I think this might predate that," Sherri responded, "I don't think anything predated Christians." Joy's attempt to explain the Greek-Roman-Christian chronology was futile, as Sherri insisted, "Jesus came first before them." Sherri's argument was all the more powerful due to her convincing "use your finger to write on the table" trick, but she can't fight the facts. Perhaps if Barbara were on today she would have explained THAT WHOLE B.C. THING (you know, as in, Before Christ).

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From ABC, 12/4

Comments

[AnnoyedCanuck]

Jesus existed in the time of the Ancient Greeks = WMDs existed under Saddam Hussein

Same mindset.

It's called Right Wing Fundamentalist Magical Thinking. Faith over fact, always and forever.

[Jane22]

I nominate Arianna to go smarten up the entertainment venues for women, that is if she can find the time!

[bumphus]

My dad once worked with a woman at a large firm specializing in education textbooks that insisted Jesus was born and raised a Presbyteri­an...

[hip dibler]

wow. she's a real dumb dumb.

[dax5]

Good God, this woman is clinically brain dead!
Who hired her...that old irrelevant windbag Barbara Walters? Smells like senility is setting in.
This Sherri Shephard (and her ilk) is what's wrong with television today. She and Hasselbeck on that show are like a meeting of the No Minds!

[chendri887]

Gawd, almighty, that is frightening. Truly.

[noozone]

A couple of observations:

a) just because you don't like something, that doesn't make it stupid. I like baseball, but don't care about football. That doesn't make me stupid for liking sports, or make football stupid because I don't like it. Apparently the women on this show were discussing Epicurus, which, without knowing the whole context of the conversation, sounds like they were having an intellectual conversation to me. And sometimes entertainment has to be... well, entertaining. EVERYONE needs a little low-brow entertainment from time to time.

b) this Sherri Shepherd woman clearly is stupid, whether you like her or not.

What scares me is that there are lots of people who are just as confused as she is about the most basic events in history, such as there was a period of time "Before Christ" and a continuing period of time that is "After (the) Death" of Christ.

And the "Greeks threw Christians to the lions" comment is just plain hilarious. It reminded me of a former co-worker who responded to my expressing a desire to visit Egypt with this comment: Why would you want to see the pyramids? All of those people worshiped Satan. I tried to explain to her that the pyramids were old by the time we invented Satan, but I didn't impress her with that argument.

I vote that they keep her on the show, at least for the remainder of the writers strike, because the only other funny shows on TV are all in reruns now.

[ianmcc]

Let me get this straight, this IGNORANT loser beat out the funny & quick-witted Kathy Griffin for the final open slot on 'The View'?! I guess the producers thought they needed to reach out to the 28%ers who voted for Bush and so they thought that Shepard's lack of intellectualism would attract them to watch.

[circusfifthfloor]

Fox is working on a pilot starring her and George Bush. Kinda, sorta like a cross between Family Guy and Good Times. One early scene has Sherri asking her husband George, "What you just say fool?" It's gonna be huge fun for the entire family...

[xcrunner77]

A high school diploma should be the minimum requirement for this job.

[SuperLib]

Yup, its amazing and unfortunately I think we've all glimpsed this kind of thing before with other people. Some people are so completely behind on the most basic knowledge that talking to them about issues, such as basic politics or basic science is like talking in a foreign language to them.

They completely lack context where to even put that knowledge. As an example, I lived with a roommate once, who was quite a successful wholesaler for the restaurant business. One night we have a discussion on politics and I say something about the left vs. the right, conservatives vs. liberals, and so on, when she stops me a in the middle of the conversation and asks me, this left and right thing you talk about what is that ? Liberal and conservative, what do those things mean ? She had no clue, what these terms meant at all. Needless to say she was lacking some basic context when it came to politics and this was a successful business woman in her mid thirties !!! I was really flabbergasted, but in the next couple of weeks I tried to educate her on some of these things. It was like talking to a wide eyed child and yet she knew the food industry and how to make a good living in it. Weird, huh ?

[sjmorton]

"I don't think anything predated Christians­."

And she said that to someone named Goldberg?

[chamberslee]

It seems as though far too many religious believers are willing to blindly follow individuals who claim to have a hotline to God: only these individuals can reach God using their red phone while hiding away in their bat cave.

Blind followers do not need facts or logic, and that is a scary reality (i.e., Jim Jones [Jamestown], David Koresh [Waco], Marshall Applewhit [Heaven's Gate cult]. Here is advice from Buddha that could help you become educated consumers (religious) of information:

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that everything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.--Buddh­a

[SILVANUS]

She obviously has a destructive lifestyle that has damaged her brain, but I'm glad she somehow found work, which, perhaps, confirms the existence of a very compassionate Creator. And I love the logic of her defenders who jump on everyone here for calling Sheri on her stupidity, yet we're supposed to just sit back and smile forgivingly while the same zealots demonize most of us. Well, take your tinkertoy, deformed distortion of Christianity that insults the truth of the Christ Mind and find your own island and leave the rest of us alone. And no, you can't guilt us into being 'nice' to you anymore; you blew that chance years ago with your bovine shyster money-hungry Falwells and Robertsons. Moreover, you turn back into fascists the moment we forgive you while you're stealing us blind of rights, money and everything you can.

[mckinley]

No different that a Born Again Christian president who believed Iraq had WMDs when there were none, and intelligence said they had none...