I Don't Believe in Atheists (Hardcover)

from skiegazer3

Not what I expected when first browsing it in the bookstore, this is still an interesting book, though sometimes it lacks clarity and organization, especially in opening chapters. Hedges attempts to combine two very important topics into one tiny volume: (a) the ideological battle between religio...

from dcunning11235

I will start by saying that I am sympathetic to the overall idea behind this book: a strict, "militant" atheism has the potential to -and in some people probably already has- become a fundamentalism. Fundamentalism, in any shape or form, is a "Bad Thing" that must be guarded against. I also am al...

from Clif

This book provides the best critic of the so called "new atheism" that I've encountered thus far. The book articulates the position that seeking the transcendent experience is an integral part of the human experience. Suggestions that progress in human knowledge and science make religion unnecess...

from AshRyan

I read Chris Hedges' previous book, American Fascists, because I agreed with its thesis, but nevertheless found it highly disappointing. Giving the author the benefit of the doubt, I chalked it up to plain ineptitude. But when I saw this book, I began to suspect that Hedges was not just inept, bu...

from mhgatti

What I was hoping for when I picked this up was some help in defending my faith against the arguments of followers of "new atheists" like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, without coming off as a fundamentalist right-wing nut-job. It seems that the extremists on both sides of the "God que...