Comments on: Show 261: Chris Hedges http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2008/04/20/show-261-chris-hedges/ Tune in, Pay it Forward, and Question Everything! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Timber http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2008/04/20/show-261-chris-hedges/#comment-89 Timber Wed, 07 May 2008 14:58:30 +0000 http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2008/04/20/show-261-chris-hedges/#comment-89 What a crock of sh*t! This hysterical and utterly dishonest description of Hedges' book is an example of just how irrational even corporate PR hacks become when religious dogma is challenged. I think Dawkins and Dennett would be amused to hear that they are attempting to "attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects." (Harris, on the other hand, has been a little melodramatic and credulous in his whole-cloth swallowing of the official conspiracy theory regarding 9/11, as well as his use of that event to argue his case against Islam.) If Hedges had real intellectual courage, he would write a book criticizing religious fanaticism and explaining how his own "moderate" religiosity differs from it. It's difference without any real distinction. Hedges has spent much of his life observing atrocities committed in wars by other "people of faith," and yet he can't even believe the evidence of his own eyes. What a crock of sh*t! This hysterical and utterly dishonest description of Hedges’ book is an example of just how irrational even corporate PR hacks become when religious dogma is challenged.

I think Dawkins and Dennett would be amused to hear that they are attempting to “attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.” (Harris, on the other hand, has been a little melodramatic and credulous in his whole-cloth swallowing of the official conspiracy theory regarding 9/11, as well as his use of that event to argue his case against Islam.)

If Hedges had real intellectual courage, he would write a book criticizing religious fanaticism and explaining how his own “moderate” religiosity differs from it. It’s difference without any real distinction.

Hedges has spent much of his life observing atrocities committed in wars by other “people of faith,” and yet he can’t even believe the evidence of his own eyes.

]]> By: chris hedges | Hottags http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2008/04/20/show-261-chris-hedges/#comment-68 chris hedges | Hottags Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:44:40 +0000 http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2008/04/20/show-261-chris-hedges/#comment-68 [...] Show 261: Chris HedgesChris 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 …Equal Time For Freethought - http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org [...] [...] Show 261: Chris HedgesChris 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 …Equal Time For Freethought - http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org [...]

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