12.26.08
Hedges on New Atheists
The cost of the new atheism
CHRISTOPHER Hitchens, Sam Harris and Co say the world can’t afford religious people. But if Chris Hedges is right, the world can’t afford Christopher Hitchens. And certainly not Sam Harris, who wants to bomb the “deranged” Muslims into oblivion before they bomb us.
This brilliant book highlights what is obvious to most reasonable observers: that these fundamentalist atheists, with their vapid, complacent self-righteousness and their facile and unjustifiable certainties, are the precise mirror image of the fundamentalist Christians, Muslims etc they so despise.