Chris Hedges goes after new atheists

Jordon Morgan
   Chris hedges is a modern day revolutionary against the corporate state and has written many books as a social critic. Since we are all social critics here at the Right Bull this guy is a favorite and required reading at the library in our office in beautiful downtown Waukegan, Illinois. Hedges wrote book very critical of the new atheists and the surge of their popularity including Sam Harris, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins. Hedges wrote a book called " I Don't Believe In Atheists" where he equates these distinguished men as much as radicals as the far-right Christian fundamentalists.

One gets a sense that Chris Hedges is bitter at the rise of the new atheists and their media popularity or perhaps he ardently feels that their rise takes away from the far-left causes he exposes. This whole book is a rambling of attacks on the writings and quotes of a few of these new atheists and Hedges worries about the science fundamentalism that some of these atheists promote with actual evidence and proof as suppose to old wise tales from uneducated men centuries ago. Somehow Hedges is not as alarmed that these biblical and Koranic dumb stories as had as much sway through the centuries taking unknown amount of people to their early graves for not strictly following the tenements of these ridiculous teachings. Hedges compares the Nazi regime with some of the thinking of a science based morality but the fool clearly doesn't understand it is the technology that lead to the mass killings in this era and would of occurred if population or if past societies had the capability of mass killings.  This is a book for Chris Hedges to troll atheists and make some money pissing off people who see religion as the enemy of mankind which is on the rise as people get educated and study the evils of the past which were unquestionably ninety nine percent religiously based in some way.

Much of this book goes into the evils of the Iraq war as if somehow secularists and atheists are responsible and Hedges worries more about talk of preemptive strikes from some of these writers instead of the hate that has been preached by Mullahs for millennium against the social progress that hedges exposes and the last I checked it was not secularists that were denying basic human rights to half of the humans not of a certain gender. hedges goes out of his way to defend Muslims throughout this book focusing on the rare instances of multi-culturalism and tolerance in their history such as the reign of soe guy in India named Akbar. I guess a book with the opposite experience in Islamic history would be to voluminous for hedges to write and have a thousand bad Akbars who didn't appreciate religious toleration and the only debate was whether a beheading was too lenient for an infidel. Men like Hedges may disagree and try to deny this declaring other issues for past atrocities and genocides but men like these new atheists he so disdains have irrevocably shown that religion has been the issue of much of warfare and ethnic cleansing of lands.