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Sam Harris Nails Palin
Uh.... Sort of.
Unlike our token atheist (who is in the midst of a major hitting slump), this atheist is dead on the money regarding Palin and (more importantly) the sorry state of US politics: http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080 Highly recommended. A sampling: Quote:
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how funny. I could seriously see the two trying to evangelize to each other, but anything more than that...notsomuch.
I've gotta say, though, for one of the world's leading secular atheists, Sam is pretty hot. He can try to convert me. I'm okay with that. |
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Hmmm. I see what he is trying to say but going from people wanting someone who they can relate to and feel comfortable with to the notion that this is an anti-intellectual anti-education impulse is a big leap, and not one supported by the overwhelming evidence. I'm sorry, but no one gets to be a Senator or a Governor if they are stupid and uneducated. Palin may not be the greatest mind our country has to offer and I'm not arguing she has an Obama like intellect. But when someone argues that she is nothing more than a sideline reporter who somehow stumbled into a VP candidacy they marginalize themself with me. Is he seriously arguing that Republicans want stupid people leading them? That is maybe the dumbest thing, or the most disingenous, I have heard a pundit say in a while. No doubt that flatters the world view of some on the left but it is not a serious thing to say.
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Harris was the guy who went on for an entire book ranting at how only atheists have half a brain. Then wrapped it up by making a plug for buddhism. He's my exhibit A that historically and even today "atheist" just means you don't believe in the Judeo-Christian formula. Read Harris or Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and that's all they do. The attacks get redundant and it's curious to me that they go on like this material is new. Their points have been made by folks like Spinoza and Hume for centuries.
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I disagree with his thesis that what they do is more important than pilots. Harris appears to be part of the arrogant entrenched media believing traditional views of government.
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