warning signs
Thursday, 5 June 2008 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI'm atheist, yet have deep admiration for some religious people, like the wonderful nun, Joan Chittister. Here is another: Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges gave a talk in Massachusetts last year titled "Who are the American Fascists?"
http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3345
In it he honestly and clearly describes the danger of fundamentalist christianity. Mr Hedges is brilliant. The world would be a much better place if there were more christians like him.
Like a lot of religious people though, he still sees religion as the source of morality. This blindness disappoints me a little. But I guess I should not expect too much. In calling urgently for a tolerant and inclusive society while bringing into focus the real and imminent dangers of intolerant religiosity he does more to bring about a good future than most people, religious or atheist.
http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3345
In it he honestly and clearly describes the danger of fundamentalist christianity. Mr Hedges is brilliant. The world would be a much better place if there were more christians like him.
Like a lot of religious people though, he still sees religion as the source of morality. This blindness disappoints me a little. But I guess I should not expect too much. In calling urgently for a tolerant and inclusive society while bringing into focus the real and imminent dangers of intolerant religiosity he does more to bring about a good future than most people, religious or atheist.