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Wow..
Rather echoing some sentiments I posted last week, and also very much in line with my atheist-leaning agnosticism, here is an editorial piece I find very interesting and very much agree with.
A choice quote:
We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.
From there he goes into the notion that maybe--just maybe--devoutly religious people who believe they're living in the Biblical End Times and are really looking forward to the Rapture ought not to be the folks in charge of a nuclear arsenal. And you know, I for one find that really difficult to disagree with.
A choice quote:
We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.
From there he goes into the notion that maybe--just maybe--devoutly religious people who believe they're living in the Biblical End Times and are really looking forward to the Rapture ought not to be the folks in charge of a nuclear arsenal. And you know, I for one find that really difficult to disagree with.
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