I Dont Believe in Atheists, Chris Hedges
I Dont Believe in Atheists, Chris Hedges
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I Don't Believe in Atheists

Author: Chris Hedges

Narrator: Chris Hedges

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2008


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author, Chris Hedges, speaks out against those who attack religion to advance their own agenda: global capitalism, intolerance, and imperial projects.

There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: Christian fundamentalists, who see religious faith as their exclusive prerogative, and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the religious majority—those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith—are caught in the middle.

Chris Hedges critiques the mindset that rages against religion and faith. He accuses the New Atheists—led by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens—of promoting a belief system that is not, as they claim, based on reason and science, but on a simplified worldview of us vs. them, intolerance toward behaviors that are not understood, and the false myths of human progress and moral superiority. Ultimately, he makes way for new, moderate voices to join the debate. A timely, compelling work for anyone who wants to understand the true state of the battle about faith today.

About Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, a staff member of the New York Times since 1990, has been a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. An adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, he is the author of Losing Moses on the Freeway and What Every Person Should Know About War. Chris was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the New York Times's coverage of global terrorism. A senior fellow at the Nation Institute, he lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on October 19, 2016

I doubt I can review this without causing some consternation for some. I read another book by this author and found that it was a misinformed book. The ideas and impressions in the book were what I'd call mis or ill-informed. Upon reading this i think I'm beginning to see the problem. I'm sure that M......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 25, 2023

A debate from a life-time ago… --I must have started writing reviews right after I finished this book, so it has always bothered me that I never properly closed this chapter. --I’ve always liked the imagery of our past experiences as a library in the dark, where our consciousness is armed with only a......more

Goodreads review by Clif on June 30, 2018

This book provides the best critic of the so called "new atheism" that I've encountered thus far. The book articulates the position that seeking the transcendent experience is an integral part of the human experience. Suggestions that progress in human knowledge and science make religion unnecessary......more

Goodreads review by Katinka on September 29, 2012

I see how a lot of people pan this book, and I think maybe it is because people are afraid to open their eyes and see the similarities between the New Atheists and fundamentalism. This book resonates with me, as it should with anyone who knows well people of all faiths. It is a call for moderation.......more

Goodreads review by Serge on September 08, 2015

What a dreadful book. It has its moments ("We have nothing to fear from those who do, or do not, believe in God. We have much to fear from those who don't believe in sin.") but as an attack on the new atheists, which is how the author presents it, it's appalling. Hedges central argument mixes all the......more