Sam Harris gives it away

Today Sam Harris – one of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism (along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett), made his Big Trending Splash. When he did, he gave the game away—not only the Democrats’ game but also the atheists’ game. And the game of all the rest of the political left. And when he does that, he sets up the Choose Now This Day Whom You Shall Serve moment (Joshua 24:15).

Sam Harris blows up the Internet and the debate

Two days ago, Sam Harris appeared on a podcast calling itself Triggernometry. There he actually excused, even justified, a conspiracy to deny re-election to President Trump. No, he did not avow any compromise of election integrity – in fact, he later condemned the very idea. But he did excuse deliberate management of the news. While doing that he revealed a depth of hatred for a candidate for public office this country has never seen.

Reportage on what some are calling the Sam Harris Rant comes from a dizzying variety of sources. From the Mainstream Media come Newsweek and, to stretch a point, Fox News. We also see reports from OpIndia, Spectator Australia, SportsKeeda, Think Americana, and even “Political Junkie” Erick-Woods Erickson.

Sam Harris certainly said several mouthfuls – and his host stared at him, mouth agape.

Hunter Biden — at that point Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared. There’s nothing — first of all, it’s Hunter Biden, it’s not Joe Biden … even, whatever scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right, or China. It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.

No one has yet alleged that Hunter Biden murdered anyone, child or adult. But that laptop apparently held off-color images CNAV refuses to describe further.

Comparing a firefly to the Sun?

Sam Harris went on:

It’s like … it’s like a firefly to the Sun.

It doesn’t even stack up against Trump University. Trump University, as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop, in my view.

“Trump University” was nothing more than a failed and perhaps over-hyped business venture. But then Sam Harris left this gem:

Now, that doesn’t answer the people who say that it is still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way or to shut down the New York Post’s Twitter account. Like, that’s just a conspiracy – that’s a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.

Absolutely, it was. Absolutely. Right? But I think it was warranted.

Why? Because in his opinion Donald Trump is dangerously, even criminally insane. So much so that Harris believes the media should have blacked out Trump during the 2016 election campaign.

In any case, that part about a “warranted” conspiracy proved too much for interviewer Konstantin Kisin.

Q. I know I said we were going to move on, but you just said something that I really struggle with.

A. The kids in the basement?

Q. [Never mind] the kids in the basement. I’m interested in democracy. You’re saying you are content with the left-wing conspiracy to prevent someone being democratically re-elected as President?

A. Well no, I’m content… But the thing is, it’s not left-wing, Liz Cheney is not left-wing.

That’s really giving the game away.

Asteroid strike alert! Not really

Kisin, still in shock, asked Sam Harris again to clarify. And Harris only made it worse:

Q. You’re content with a conspiracy to prevent someone being democratically elected…?

A. No – but – it’s not – there’s nothing – it was a conspiracy out in the open. But it doesn’t matter if it was a conspiracy. It doesn’t matter what part is conspiracy – what part is out in the open – it’s like, if people get together and talk about “What should we do about this phenomenon?” it’s almost an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. And we got in a room together, with all of our friends, and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course – is that a conspiracy?

That last might have been the last straw for inveterate Never-Trumper Erick-Woods Erickson. He coupled that with Edward Luce calling Republicans “nihilistic, dangerous and contemptible,”

and General Michael Hayden agreeing with that. “They really do hate us!” he finally seems to have realized. Then he came as close to apologizing to Donald Trump as he will likely ever come:

I frankly think Edward Luce’s comment, combined with Michael Hayden’s affirmation and Sam Harris’s defense of undermining democracy to save it does far more damage to the national discourse and direction of the country than anything Trump has done.

Because, says Erickson, Trump was merely reacting to the Left’s hatred, not only of himself but also of the people.

Sam Harris, whom do you serve?

Joshua, Commander and Judge of the Israelites after Moses, admonished them severely in his farewell address. Specifically he said, in a verse many have since quoted:

But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the [Euphrates] River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.Joshua 24:15, NASB

Sam Harris has made a career serving the collective and haranguing others to do so. God is his Enemy, as he has made plain. Yet, to him, the self does not exist. So what does? He really won’t say.

But two days ago he said a mouthful. But why should any candidate, even one who, like Donald Trump, deliberately cultivated a larger-than-life image of himself, so frighten a philosopher like Sam Harris? What could drive a man to embrace narrating the news in a false and misleading manner?

The better question is: what stops a man from embracing strategic and tactical lying? Only God. John Adams knew it. That’s what he meant by:

Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

That’s why we must get back to morals and religion.

About the image

Photographer Christopher Michel snapped this portrait of Sam Harris and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons. He has licensed it under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike 4.0 International License.