.. and that is part of what has throughout history lead to so much violence and slaughter: this wholehearted surety about religion... without actually knowing about your religion to begin with. Will she even bother to listen? No, because she already KNOWS how things are, and that knowledge is part of her faith... thus its not a simple case of understanding chronology... it is something that would shake her faith.

I wouldn't say ignorance is the only reason anyone finds Christianity to be acceptable... but it is the reason some people find nothing to question in it.

Personally, I don't see that it makes any goddamned sense whatsoever. But thats just what I believe.

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The View always manages to pick annoying and boring women to host the show. The only one I like is Joy Behar. Barbara walters has always put my feet to sleep.

Who watches this show? I can't belive that the majority of American women want their TV programming dumbed down by that moron who is stupider than a sack of hammers.

Jesus came before dinosaurs according to her.

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Just think -- Sherri Shepherd, and people like her, vote for our elected leaders (and I use that term loosely, obviously).

It's no wonder that our democracy is being taken away from us, little-by-little.

Something to ponder as you go about your day.

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It's pleasing to some to be smarter than at least one person on that show.

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I understand that the women were talking chronology of actual events in history but I think what may have caused some confusion here is John 1:1-2. I'm not saying that we should all believe what it says there, or to interpret it in a certain way, but obviously she does. "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God." A common interpretation of the figurative meaning of "Word" is Jesus Christ. Therefor Jesus the Christ always was and predates everything else. I can see how she might believe that Christianity always was in existence because Christ was always in existence.

Now I am not certain that she used the same thought process as I did to come to her conclusion. Indeed I suspect it was much more intuitive. But I worry that posters here resort to calling her stupid because her thought processes are not the same as theirs and that she reaches a different conclusion than they do.

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Do they pay people to act this dumb?
I used to wonder whether there were people in the world who were truly truly totally stupid.
This air headette can be a perfect example of one being paid to act this stupid/ignorant/fooled and/or actually being like that.

After hearing from and about those who actually believe and support the cheney puppet and the fixed noise types, I no longer wonder.
There ARE people that stupid.

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(and please note the quote marks)....revels in her/his ignorance, wears it as a badge of honor. The tables have been triumphantly turned in the "war" against the "elites:" To be dumb is to be smart; to be smart is to be dumb. Thomas Merton would lose his lunch.

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I mean, seriously.

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They don't teach shit in schools anymore.

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Never watched The View, although I am tempted to check it out now for the laughs.

Shepherd must be giving the Christian Right hives. You know, it says (or rather implies) right there in the Bible that the Earth is *6000* years old, not 2000 years old. Geesh. Imagine the confusion she is causing among the true believers.

For it was Jesus who created the Earth in 7 days.
It was Jesus who took the animals two by two and loaded them onto an ark of His own construction (He was a carpenter, you know).
It was Jesus who parted the Red Sea.
On and on...

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resiist the urge to call Sheri a idiot

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Bill Hicks:

"'Dinosaur fossils... God put those here to test our faith!'

I think God put YOU here to test MY faith! Doesn't that disturb anybody? The idea of a prankster god F***ING WITH OUR HEADS?!?! I have trouble sleeping at night with that idea in mind."

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is the mix of opinion and advertising. They have an uninformed, uninformative discussion, with up to four opinions, and then will make a transition by turning a phrase (as awkward as it is seamless) into a giveaway of some product, so the message is that while they may disagree on the issues, the product is something everyone can agree and cheer for.
Watching the show makes you think you are a 'citizen' in a sci-fi movie, very surreal.
ps. Later in this episode, Whoppi Goldberg said the death tax applies to everyone, and was uncorrected. An interview with Ron Paul ended the show, talking exclusively about abortion, and how it is murder & should be state not federal law, and of course Roe v. Wade should be overturned. The hosts are twits. May the zombies rest in peace!

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She was great as the feisty cop on Raymond.

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VOTE REPUBLICAN!!

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Sheperd is not the only idiot with a mouth on that show.

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Only one is necessary:

If you believe the Bible is actually the word of some god and you believe that the earth is 6,000 years old, you are not qualified to vote.

Insert the Koran where appropriate. Same result.

People who believe nonsense should not be voting in the 21st century.

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that people posting about this topic are so quick to deride the ignorance of others:

Oh how ignorant. See the ignorant lady on TV.

And yet, over at the homeopathy article, others on this site are well on their way to displaying their own ignorance for everyone to see.

Just a thought.

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