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When Atheism Becomes Religion - by Chris Hedges

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When Atheism Becomes Religion - by Chris Hedges

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I'm currently flipping through this book.
I found a fairly reasonable review of it here:

http://www.lifeongoldplates.com/2010/02 ... heism.html

Hedges dispatches the new atheists by describing the thread he believes connects them to the very ideologues they claim to despise: "These atheists embrace a belief system as intolerant, chauvinistic and bigoted as that of religious fundamentalists. They propose a route to collective salvation and the moral advancement of the human species through science and reason" instead of Jesus Christ (1, 2). When Atheism Becomes Religion is "a call to reject simplistic utopian visions. It is a call to accept the ineluctable limitations of being human" (7). Hedges’s own utopia would be a world where people don’t clamor for "the silencing or eradication of human beings who are impediments to human progress" (2). He wants a utopia where people don't hope for utopia.
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