On Obama and religion in the US

[lunadelcorvo]

Sam Harris wrote a wonderful response to Obama's recent speech.

Despite all that he does not and cannot say, Obama's candidacy is genuinely thrilling: his heart is clearly in the right place; he is an order of magnitude more intelligent than the current occupant of the Oval Office;* and he still stands a decent chance of becoming the next President of the United States. His election in November really would be a triumph of hope.

But Obama's candidacy is also depressing, for it demonstrates that even a person of the greatest candor and eloquence must still claim to believe the unbelievable in order to have a political career in this country. We may be ready for the audacity of hope. Will we ever be ready for the audacity of reason?

*So are most of the inhabitants of my vegetable crisper, but that's neither here nor there...

Read the whole article here.

Comments

[samuraiartguy.livejournal.com]

Hear Hear... looking at Hillary and the other two, I'm coming out for Obama in a big way. I think that the speech on race clinched it for me. Having one parent lighter than me, and the other darker, and having once been called a "nigger bastrard" and a "honky motherfucker" inside the same hour, in my mothers' home town, at age 9, with the amusing beatdown to go with it...

So the very forthright, no-nonsense, SANE speech following the Wright incident very much hit a note with me.

[lunamorgaine.livejournal.com]

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