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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.... read more
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Chris Hedges, war correspondent for the New York Times and author of "American Fascists," discusses how the so-called 'new atheists' - luminaries such as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins - suffer from the same errors in understanding human character that lead to the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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“We advance morally and intellectually only (...) when we use the lens of other cultures to examine our own. It is then that we see our limitations, that we uncover the folly of our own assumptions and our prejudices.”
Chris Hedges
First Sentence edit
I flew to Los Angeles from Philadelphia in May of 2007 to debate Sam Harris, the author of The End of Faith and Letters to a Christian Nation, in UCLA's cavernous Royce Hall.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1. The God Debate
2. Science and Religion
3. The New Fundamentalism
4. Self-Delusion
5. The Myth of Moral Progress
6. Humiliation and Revenge
7. The Illusive Self
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: BL85.H35 2008
- Dewey: 211
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