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I Don't Believe in Atheists Hardcover – March 4, 2008

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The author of the best-selling American Fascists presents a scathing critique of both religious and secular fundamentalists, arguing that the former support discrimination and that the latter promote undue dependence on such morally neutral disciplines as reason and science. 100,000 first printing.

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141656795X
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978-1416567950
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*Starred Review* Hedges is clear from the outset: there is nothing inherently moral about being either a believer or a nonbeliever. He goes a step further by accusing atheists of being as intolerant, chauvinistic, bigoted, anti-intellectual, and self-righteous as their archrivals, religious fundamentalists; in other words, as being secular versions of the religious Right. Like best-selling atheists Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, Hedges is disgusted with the Christian Right, going so far as to call it the most frightening mass movement in American history. Even more disturbing for Hedges, however, is the notion, which many atheists and liberal churchgoers share, that as a species humanity can progress morally. There is nothing in human nature or human history to support the idea, Hedges maintains, nor that the flaws of human nature will ever be overcome. He discusses the dark sides of the Enlightenment, Darwinism, consumer culture, the justifications for America’s wars (including in Vietnam and now Iraq), and obsession with celebrity, among other equally hot topics. His purpose in this small, thought-provoking book is, he says, to help Americans, in particular, accept the limitations of being human and, ultimately, face reality. --June Sawyers

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig out of Los Angeles and is host of the Emmy Award–winning RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches college credit courses in the New Jersey prison system.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press (March 4, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 141656795X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416567950
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.8 x 7 inches

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Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.

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Lyle D. Hettinger

who is tired of waiting for better days. Ich betete insbrünstig für die Erlösung

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017

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Hedges, if I recall correctly began his career(?) as a young first time Presbyterian minister. His observations on the secular and ecclesial worlds are on point, in my view. The promise of science or religion have yet to be realized in this world, and considering the lovely state of affairs in the world at the beginning of the 21st century. wherein the evils of past centuries are revisited and improved upon, amelioration of humanity may remain an unattainable goal. Reading Hedges was balm upon my weary soul, who is tired of waiting for better days. Ich betete insbrünstig für die Erlösung, und anstatt dessen bekam einen verspäteten Führer, einen römischen Kaiser, der zu alle Zeiten paßt--leider!

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Stephen Cunningham

Chris Hedges is correct to encourage respect for other peoples opinion.

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2022

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I have an MDiv in Theology, but I also have a healthy respect for non religious views. Chris Hedges presents a convincing critique of people who think that they have “the truth,” atheists or religious fundamentalist. We should not take a “my view or the highway view.”

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Brian Phillips

Great book! We need more voices like this in America today. This book was very engaging. Chris Hedges makes a great argument aga

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016

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I am an atheist but felt and understand the need to be more open to the complex situation that is the human condition.

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David Claessen

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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018

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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2020

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I believe in atheist more now

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William C. Necoechea

I thought the book was utter, pretentious drivel from ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018

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I thought the book was utter, pretentious drivel from beginning to end, with only a few redeeming features. He is even more platitudinous then the people he criticizes. His definition of God is also so vague that I'm not sure there is anything to agree or disagree about.

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Neal Diamond

Most Reviewers Didn't Read This Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2013

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After reading reviews of this book I was set back from ordering it. But then I read 6 other books by Chris Hedges, all of which were amazing. Based on the reviews I have to say it seems Hedges has angered a lot of atheists that didn't read the first 8 pages of this book. First of all Hedges acknowledges that the New Atheists he's talking about in this book do not represent the views of all Atheists and that atheists can be and often are just as moral as the next person. He also mentions that the new atheists are a group that has little to no power in this country. This book is an extension from debates he had with Hitches and Harris and other New Atheists. He discusses the dangers of fundamentalism in this book and how the ideas of Hitchens, Harris, and the New Atheist, if they were to go mainstream and powerful, are just as dangerous as views from Christian Right extremists that he discusses in his book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.

A simple example of this correlation between the 2 fundamentalist groups is this- Both Chris Hitchens, a new atheist, and Pat Robertson, a christian extremist, support war in the name of annihilation, such as the war in Iraq.

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Mark Moses

Chris Hedges Speaks Truth to Power

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2017

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Chris Hedges is the man! Unless you are a Secular Fundamentalist, he will ruin your day.

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Simon Perry

Original but a bit gloomy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2015

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Hedges is trying to shift some of the key elements of this debate away from the traditional 'god exists', oh-no-he-doesn't, oh-yes-he-does game. Instead, he is attempting to look at the political dimension of atheism in today's US (a very different animal from UK or European atheisms). He is onto something, I think, but it becomes a bit boring and predictable in places. It's quite negative in fact, and he doesn't really present a positive case that has proper coherence - but who can blame him, seeing what he has seen. I suspect that in future debates on this topic are likely to be moving towards the field where Hedges is fighting - and on that basis I believe the book is recommendable. Plus there is no disputing that Hedges is a great writer, and despite being downbeat the book is quite a pleasurable read.

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Cameron Fairlie

Cognitive Dissonance for the New Atheists

Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2022

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If you are one of the New Atheist militants, who is completely intolerant of any expression of faith in God based on a false notion that we’re all supposed to be backwood uneducated fundamentalists, WELCOME TO THIS BOOK and a whole lot of cognitive dissonance you will experience during the read! :-)

Lucretia Martenet

Belief takes many forms

Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2019

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Chris Hedges should be required reading. This is a companion volume to his book on the fundamentalist take over of America. While atheism may be seen as a counterattack to bizarre religiosity, Hedges thesis is that it has become a type of religion itself and that society is losing a basic structure at a time when it needs it most.

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One Star

Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2018

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More repetitive rant than argument. Not what I would have expected from Mr. Hedges.

Al

Chris H brilliant as usual

Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2015

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Chris H brilliant as usual. I consider my self an atheist but I love how the author exposes the hidden prejudices, manipulation and interests of those who claim to lead the "atheist" movement. It's an eye opener.

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