Henry Reed is an author, lecturer, psychologist, and teacher. This book review appeared in the January 2010 issue of Venture Inward, the magazine of Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. (www.EdgarCayce.org) It’s a good reminder that it’s always easier to see the mote in the other person’s eye than the beam in one’s own.
Taking on Atheists and Fundamentalists
I find it very interesting to watch John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute. He is a conservative in the old sense of the word, and, remarkably, apparently an honest man who does not allow a sense of partisanship or ideological loyalty to blind him to the truth.
Best-Selling Author Chris Hedges Takes Aim at Political Convergence of New Atheists & Radical Christian Fundamentalists in OldSpeak Interview
“The failure of the secular left in this country is that they forgot their Bible. They forgot that there are moral imperatives to which they must remain steadfast, regardless of what happens around them.”-Chris Hedges
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – OldSpeak, an online publication of The Rutherford Institute, hosts a provocative interview with Chris Hedges, author of I Don’t Believe in Atheists (Free Press, 2008). Speaking with John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, Hedges takes aim at so-called “New Atheists” such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins for peddling a malformed theology of blind religion and science and attacking religion in order to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperialist projects. The interview, “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” is available here (http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/articles/interviews/oldspeak-Hedges_2008.html)