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I believe that with the nomination of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, the silliness of our politics has finally put our nation at risk. The world is growing more complex—and dangerous—with each passing hour, and our position within it growing more precarious. Should she become president, Palin seems capable of enacting policies so detached from the common interests of humanity, and from empirical reality, as to unite the entire world against us. When asked why she is qualified to shoulder more responsibility than any person has held in human history, Palin cites her refusal to hesitate. "You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. Let us hope that a President Palin would blink, again and again, while more thoughtful people decide the fate of civilization.

Harris is a founder of The Reason Project and author of The New York Times best sellers “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation.” His Web site is samharris.org.

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  • Posted By: willegge @ 04/30/2009 7:31:35 PM

    Hey Mr. Harris, Gee Sarah Palin's faith view of life sounds like she belongs to some small group of people that are too dangerous to trust with leadership of the country but are just too dumb to know it. Hmm I wonder what our founding fathers, or a man like Abraham Lincoln would think of this article that you have written? I think they would be appalled, at your elitism, and bigotry that you try and camouflage with an arrogant misguided intellectualism. You are the dangerous one sir, and the good will eventually overcome people like you, and Mr. Obama. Long after you are forgotten, Sarah Pain and what she has done and what she stands for will be remembered and celebrated.

  • Posted By: willegge @ 04/30/2009 7:28:48 PM

    Hey Mr. Harris, Gee Sarah Palin's faith view of life sounds like she belongs to some small group of people that are too dangerous to trust with leadership of the country but are just too dumb to know it. Hmm I wonder what our founding fathers, or a man like Abraham Lincoln would think of this article that you have written? I think they would be appalled, at your elitism, and bigotry that you try and camouflage with an arrogant misguided intellectualism. You are the dangerous one sir, and the good will eventually overcome people like you, and Mr. Obama. Long after you are forgotten, Sarah Pain and what she has done and what she stands for will be remembered and celebrated.

  • Posted By: luckee85 @ 02/11/2009 1:40:57 PM

    Sam Harris is one of my favorite authors. Everything he writes about he backs with research, logic, and reason. Even in this article what he says can't be argued. Really, who would argue it? Sarah Palin? Her supporters? What would their argument be? Hearing religious people defend their beliefs is like hearing comic book fanatics argue about which super-hero or villain is the strongest. In the end it just doesn't matter because it's just a made up story that has nothing to do with reality. It's terrifying to think that the leader of our nation and military believes and bases his life off a man-written book. I dread the day our President will want to continue God's work. Just as one Adolf Hitler tried to do years ago. Also, the title of this article is crap. If anyone has read any of Sam Harris's work they'd know he doesn't like or agree with the term Atheist.

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