When Atheists Attack

Stop clinging to your Bibles you clinging clingers. I teach you the Overman. God is dead. Thus Spoke Barackzustra.

This is not an argument about religion.
This is an argument about who is going to be at the helm of our country, in these next ultra critical years.
This could be the most tumultous time in Amercian history since 1776.

Palin is unfit to deal with things economic on such a world wide scale.Palin is unfit to be president or vice president. She got her first passport last year! She hasnt been out of this country before that. This matters.

This is not malicious, this is just fact. As factual as in stating my realization that I am unfit to be the quarterback for new England Patriots or the corporate head of Apple or Sony. there are more qualified people for that job than myself.
I have no training, experience or right to the position. I would submerge the company or team with my lack of knowledge.
(I'm trained primarily as a musician and have studied my craft for a lifetime. I expect no less from musians that I work with. how much more should we scrutinize a world leader!!!)
She has not studied her craft for a lifetime.
This is not make believe opinion stuff. This is not religious falme war material.
This is serious. This is your lives and your familys lives at stake.

Wake up sleepers.

get your nose out of that 200 year old book and lok around with eyes that can see 2008.
Wake UP sleepers.

I believe wyandotte made your point stronger than the article itself, Sam.

Maybe this anti-elitism goes back to the reality that we grow up praising democracy and living in a republic. We watch as the power promised to us in every patriotic gesture glorifying ???democracy??? is usurped by an elite few. Embracing the elite embraces the reality that a true democracy would never work on our grand scale and that few of us have the time, resources, or information required to effectively govern or effectively lead. People won???t own up to their personal ignorance, their failure to access what few means we, as citizens, have to understand the political world. And it isn???t entirely our fault. Governance requires strategy and secrecy, which means that we are not privy to the information our senators have when they make their decisions. On top of this, the easiest ways to get political information are the ones most subject to fraud. Assuming we???d like to access the most important information, this trickles down to us on television and the internet in news stories. ???Stories??? suggesting that there is a latent argument to them: ???this happened and here???s how and why.??? Ultimately, it means someone else controls what is ???important??? and how it is distributed. Ultimately, this makes many Americans (including myself) distrustful or cynical about the information we receive. But guilt (or pride?) over our democratic ignorance should not allow us to accept representatives simply because they are ign???ant like us. And it should not allow us to accept the abuse of power. If we must further democratize anything in this country, it ought to be information, not politicians. Our demand should be SHOW US THE SOURCE!

Brilliant!! The part about Palin as a neurologist really got me. And for all of those saying, "give her a chance," I'd rather not. Her politics are either fanatical or non-existant. I'll take my chances on the knowledge, experience and promises of real change proposed by Obama/Biden. I know a lot of fundamentalists want to protect their own,so there's nothing that can be said to that, but please take a moment to think about what is best for our NATION before you throw your vote away; save religious matters for church.

Maybe this anti-elitism goes back to the reality that we grow up praising democracy and living in a republic. We watch as the power promised to us in every patriotic gesture glorifying ???democracy??? is usurped by an elite few. Embracing the elite embraces the reality that a true democracy would never work on our grand scale and that few of us have the time, resources, or information required to effectively govern or effectively lead. People won???t own up to their personal ignorance, their failure to access what few means we, as citizens, have to understand the political world. And it isn???t entirely our fault. Governance requires strategy and secrecy, which means that we are not privy to the information our senators have when they make their decisions. On top of this, the easiest ways to get political information are the ones most subject to fraud. Assuming we???d like to access the most important information, this trickles down to us on television and the internet in news stories. ???Stories??? suggesting that there is a latent argument to them: ???this happened and here???s how and why.??? Ultimately, it means someone else controls what is ???important??? and how it is distributed. Ultimately, this makes many Americans (including myself) distrustful or cynical about the information we receive. But guilt (or pride?) over our democratic ignorance should not allow us to accept representatives simply because they are ign???ant like us. And it should not allow us to accept the abuse of power. If we must further democratize anything in this country, it ought to be information, not politicians. Our demand should be SHOW US THE SOURCE!

THE fundementalists just do not get it,
the earth is over 4BILLION yrs old,
noah was the story of an alcoholic done in SOMATIC METAPHOR
the same with the loaves and fishes of jesus and the water into wine SOMATIC METAPHOR.
i know its a big word look it up ,
the seven days refers to the seven major endocrine glands of the body also called tags and charkras and latifas.
the "LIGHT" these glands produce is in the near infa-red wave length it is called an IONIC DISCHARGE .
sodium ions catylizing with a carbon molecule with an oxygen ion are catylized in a BRIGHT YELLOW WAVE LENGTH .
\ thus the religious depictions in art though out the centuries.
it is SIMPLE SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE.
not some act of an other worldy GOD.
even the rock band the beatles knew the differance when they reffed to "we all live in a yellow submarine"
so what is special about the near infa-red wave length ???
it is the RESONANT WAVE LENGTH OF WATER ...95% of the human body is water.
islam judism chistianity buddism is the stuff of cave men and ignorant primitives.
and of course their WOMEN.

thank you sam...to those of you with ears to hear: please listen.

Just ponder for one moment that Sarah Palin's spiritual views are correct. What if there is a God who is control of everything? Then ponder for another moment, that she is completely wrong, please tell me who would be, or how would this country be worse off? No matter what policies or laws are put into effect due to the change in government, by either nominee, radical Islamics will still HATE us and all that America stands for. (Freedom, self expression, you know, 1st amendment kind of stuff). Why doesn't anyone report that? Liberal America seems to think that if we "play nice" in the World's sandbox, everything will be just peachy! It is so easy to criticize, belittle, poke fun of, dismiss, a person's views, politician or not, when it does not conform to the liberal media. I find it odd that the media did not have such a strong reaction to Barak Obama's preachers' sermon of hate. It was almost completely dismissed by the media. A headline, for what, maybe one day? Sarah Palin states that she is a Christian. I believe Barak Obama admits he is a Christian according to the church he belonged to for 20 years. Oh, I'm sorry, that's right, he compromised his integrity and character by selling out to "popular opinion" by withdrawing his membership in his church. I'm sure he survived the Christian brainwashing that took place in his church for the past 20 years . Watch out for a change in the wind. Who knows where the media will take us.

What, exactly, does Sam Harris' religion or lack thereof have to do with this article? Why has Newsweek retitled his essay from "In Defense of Elitism" to "When Atheists Attack"?! Harris' stated intent is to defend the notion that we should seek and indeed demand excellence from our elected officials. He posits that there are minimum qualifications for a president or vice president and that Ms. Palin does not meet them.

The change of title is unnecessary and misleading. It tells me nothing about the contents of the essay and rather encourages many to dismiss it out of hand as an "attack". Mr. Harris' religious beliefs are not relevant; it is in fact disgusting that Newsweek sees fit to call him out as an atheist in a manner that seems to somehow disavow his contribution. It would be utterly unacceptable to run a piece titled "When Jews Attack", yet what Newsweek has done here is tantamount to just that.

Obama looking for people who will populate a new world. Writes Mr. Obama on page 86 of his autobiography: "If Malcom X's discovery toward the end of his life that some WHITES might live beside him as brothers in ISLAM seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation, that hope appeared in a distant future, in a far off land. In the meantime, I looked to see where people would come from who were willing to work toward this future and populate this new WORLD."

I agree a thousand-fold. Problem is, you're preaching to the choir. The portion of the American populace voting for her believes the same nonsense with the same vigor that she does. Faith requires an absence of reason by definition; how likely do you suppose it is that these people would be persuaded by a rational argument?

I am a committed Christian who finds the Palin doctrine horrifying and not representative of the gospel as I know it. I lived in Colorado Springs, which considered itself ground zero in the Chrisian culture wars. I experienced first hand the divisive, destructive impact of "spiritual warfare" and dominion theology on a community. Sarah Palin is Ted Haggard in a skirt. God help us all.

It's also ironic that Bush and others talk about the "angry left".........really? The left is angry? Last time I checked, it was the Republicans preaching hate for anyone who doesn't share their "family values", hate towards homosexuals, hate towards anyone hailing from the Southern Hemisphere.