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I Don't Believe in Atheists
Chris Hedges
Free Press
March 2008
On Sale: March 4, 2008
224 pages ISBN: 141656795X EAN: 9781416567950 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
From the New York Times bestselling author of
American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is
a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and
compelling work about new atheists: those who attack
religion to advance the worst of global capitalism,
intolerance and imperial projects. Chris Hedges, who
graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, has long
been a courageous voice in a world where there are too few.
He observes that there are two radical, polarized and
dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in
America: the fundamentalists who see religious faith as
their prerogative, and the new atheists who brand all
religious belief as irrational and dangerous. Both sides use
faith to promote a radical agenda, while the religious
majority, those with a commitment to tolerance and
compassion as well as to their faith, are caught in the
middle. The new atheists, led by Richard Dawkins,
Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, do not make moral
arguments about religion. Rather, they have created a new
form of fundamentalism that attempts to permeate society
with ideas about our own moral superiority and the
omnipotence of human reason. I Don't Believe in
Atheists critiques the radical mindset that rages
against religion and faith. Hedges identifies the pillars of
the new atheist belief system, revealing that the stringent
rules and rigid traditions in place are as strict as those
of any religious practice. Hedges claims that those
who have placed blind faith in the morally neutral
disciplines of reason and science create idols in their own
image -- a sin for either side of the spectrum. He makes an
impassioned, intelligent case against religious and secular
fundamentalism, which seeks to divide the world into those
worthy of moral and intellectual consideration and those who
should be condemned, silenced and eradicated. Hedges
shatters the new atheists' assault against religion in
America, and in doing so, makes way for new, moderate voices
to join the debate. This is a book that must be read to
understand the state of the battle about faith.
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