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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.
- Sales Rank: #728099 in Books
- Published on: 2009-03-10
- Released on: 2009-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x .50" w x 5.00" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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*Starred Review* Hedges is clear from the outset: there is nothing inherently moral about being either a believer or a nonbeliever. He goes a step further by accusing atheists of being as intolerant, chauvinistic, bigoted, anti-intellectual, and self-righteous as their archrivals, religious fundamentalists; in other words, as being secular versions of the religious Right. Like best-selling atheists Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, Hedges is disgusted with the Christian Right, going so far as to call it the most frightening mass movement in American history. Even more disturbing for Hedges, however, is the notion, which many atheists and liberal churchgoers share, that as a species humanity can progress morally. There is nothing in human nature or human history to support the idea, Hedges maintains, nor that the flaws of human nature will ever be overcome. He discusses the dark sides of the Enlightenment, Darwinism, consumer culture, the justifications for America’s wars (including in Vietnam and now Iraq), and obsession with celebrity, among other equally hot topics. His purpose in this small, thought-provoking book is, he says, to help Americans, in particular, accept the limitations of being human and, ultimately, face reality. --June Sawyers
Review
"Chris Hedges reminds us that the point of religion is not to make us disdain those who think differently but rather to help us become decent, responsive, and moral human beings." - 0, The Oprah Magazine
About the Author
Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New
York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science
Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times
coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International
Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller
American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is
a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute
and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York
University and Princeton University.
Most helpful customer reviews
10 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
I don't believe in athiests
By Keysar Trad
This book is not about religion, it is about the blinkered thinking of some leading athiests who fall into the trap of doing exactly what those they criticise do: simply attempting to polarise views into "us" and "them".
Hedges references well his arguments throughout the book. One does not need to agree with his assessment of all religions, however, what he has revealed about the goals and the stated methods to achieve these goals by leading proponents of athiesm is very very eye opening.
This is a very significant book, it shows that fundamentalism also exists amongst athiests and this fundamentalism can be just as dangerous as any other.
Hedges presents compelling argument as to why fundamentalist athiests deserve to be considered in the same light as religious fundamentalists and rightly outlines through numerous examples that these are as closed minded as each other.
The book contains many very useful quotes from the leading athiests of our time, these quotes show that their rhetoric and their solutions are just as perturbing as those touted by religious extremists.
This book is well worth reading and recommending to others, I have already ordered a copy for a friend.
11 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Another Hedges classic
By Iskandar Rabeendran
Chris Hedges taught me in "War is a force that gives us meaning" that extremists on both sides of an issue, who at first sight would appear to be mortal enemies, are really allies against the moderate viewpoints. For ex. George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden need each other to thrive.
This book is another perfect demonstration of this "paradox"; Hedges points to the similarities between the Christian Right and the New Atheists; those 2 factions need each other to inflame the debate and call for violence. They are indeed a threat to our democracy.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
The Negative Reviews are Completely Warranted
By G.X. Larson
This book was written in the aftermath of several public debates that journalist Chris Hedges had with Christopher Hitchens (author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything) and Sam Harris (author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation). In this book Hedges continues the debate against Hitchens and Harris, along with other "New Atheists" such as Daniel Dennet (author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon) and Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion). In this book Hedges does a lot of essentializing and often reduces his opponents' arguments to (at times) absurd conclusions. "They argue, like the Christian radicals, that some human beings, maybe many human beings, have to be eradicated to achieve [a] better world."
Hedges' goal with this book is to argue against the utopian and millenarian "New Atheism", which, he says, claims that if religion was stemmed or abolished humanity would enter a new phase of greatness and peace. However, is this actually what New Atheists argue? I have read Hitchens' "God is not Great" (and I enjoyed it) but I do not recall Hitchens saying that the answer to the Gordian Knot is to simply pull the religion string, nor do I recall reading that it would be better to eradicate the religious. (Doubtless, Hitchens and his fellow New Atheists essentialize and reduce their opponents as well...) At another time Hedges claims that humanity has not progressed morally. This is a bold and interesting claim, but it remains just that: a bold claim. I, along with The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, disagree.
At another point in the book Hedges, in a defense of religion, seems to say that only religion and spirituality can help us answer questions like "what are we, why are we here"; "Science and reason, while they can illuminate these questions, can definitively answer none of [these questions]." I tend to agree, but literature, philosophy and art can answer these unanswerables as well. Countless other occasions of unwarranted rhetoric and fist waving bugged me throughout the first chapter because, alas, the first chapter is all I could take. Hedges repeats himself over and over, which gave me the impression that the book was written in great haste without too much thought. In essence (again with the essentializing...) this book is a poor attempt at what needs to be a careful, nuanced, and thoughtful (and edited!) response to New Atheism. Hedges' gross caricatures of his opponents will not--so to speak--win many converts.
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