The *really* weird part of that is that it doesn't seem to correspond with any religious or philosophical view I've ever heard. I've never even heard Falwell or Robertson claim there was nothing before Jesus. Possibly because they'd thumbed through a Bible once or twice and noticed a few thousand years of Old Testament before the lad was (supposedly) born.
Hell, even Young Earth Creationists, who think the world is just 6000 years old and man was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, don't think Jesus came before all that. Must less Christians.
She may be confusing the idea of "I am the Alpha and the Omega" with the specific incarnation of Christ. A lot of people have trouble with the idea of the Trinity...Christ is God, and if there was nothing before God there was nothing before Christ. Mixing up Christ the eternal part of the Trinity and Christ the man who walked on Earth, that sort of thing.
But the other ladies were even dumber, really. At least it's possible miss brainless was thinking in muddled tripartate eternal God terms, but the others were simply being factually ignorant (like Behar's claim that the Greeks came first of all).
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:00 pm (UTC)Hell, even Young Earth Creationists, who think the world is just 6000 years old and man was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, don't think Jesus came before all that. Must less Christians.
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:21 pm (UTC)But the other ladies were even dumber, really. At least it's possible miss brainless was thinking in muddled tripartate eternal God terms, but the others were simply being factually ignorant (like Behar's claim that the Greeks came first of all).
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-05 08:24 pm (UTC)Thanks for that, you :D