Ya, I'm not sure if it was in that interview or th...

2008-05-04T22:16:00.000-07:00

Ya, I'm not sure if it was in that interview or the debate with Harris (I think it was the debate), but at one point Hedges reads something from "end of faith" and then takes it to be a claim that Sam Harris thinks a preemptive nuclear strike would be warranted on an Islamic country. A few people in the audience clapped and I shouted at my computer "you people can't *possibly* have ever read that book". I read that book and such a claim is shameful. I can barely stand listening to Hedges for more than a minute and I could only multitask my way through the point of inquiry interview.

I couldn't listen to the whole interview. He lost ...

2008-05-04T16:52:00.000-07:00

I couldn't listen to the whole interview. He lost me from the get go when he implicitly treated the atheism of Sam Harris as a belief system - but that's the only way he can criticize it.

It's Methodological Naturalism, which, by definition, makes no assertions of belief. (Which, by the way, can't be said of someone like Richard Carrier, whose strong atheism *is* a belief system.)

The supreme irony is that he is implicitly trashing religion every time he uses derogatory religious nomenclature (like fundamentalists or dogmatists) to characterize the atheists.

And then he takes a statement by Harris completely out of context and criticizes it out of context. The guy is missing a few screws.

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Ya, I'm not sure if it was in that interview or th...

I couldn't listen to the whole interview. He lost ...