Chris Hedges is an experienced journalist who knows his way around the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, as well as other troubled areas. An atheist cannot rationally say he knows there is no God because he would have to know all things in order to know if there is or isn’t a God. I want to see evidence that they exist. Incurring that kind of disrespect is a risk of standing up for what you believe in, or, in our case, standing up for what you don’t believe in. The term atheist … That is when I began to see that atheists don't really exist. I just personally lack belief in them. I Don’t Believe in Atheists by Carl Coon • 20 August 2008. If he says he lacks belief in God, then ask what he does believe … Sadly, they demonstrated that rather than lacking evidence, they actually lacked a desire to believe in God, usually because they preferred to act as their own gods and didn't want to answer to anyone. I don't believe in atheists. Science has shown that the universe can operate just fine without them. Not one single prayer was ever answered. If God isn’t prepared to answer prayers in a very concrete way, i.e (Hey, God, I don’t have a job or I don’t have money to pay the rent), then s/he is … I don’t believe in Atheists. If he says he believes there is no God, ask him why he believes that way, and begin there. I mean, you’re skeptical about religious extremism. Everyone seems to know one, but there is simply no good reason to believe that they exist. I must have prayed for something like 25 or 30 years. It seems just from your other books that you’d share the perspective of the show, science and reason and all that. In I Don’t Believe in Atheists (Free Press, 2008), best-selling author Chris Hedges identifies the “New Atheists,” including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, as those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperialist projects. And you wrote this previous book, American Fascists. Now I know that many don't find "it's in the bible" to be a compelling argument, but please think about how you might respond to this if you felt it was worth considering: In Pew Research Center’s 2019 religious knowledge survey , atheists were among the best-performing groups, answering an average of about 18 out of 32 fact-based questions correctly, while U.S. adults overall got an average of roughly 14 questions right. Lucas Peng 1. This is a less well-known Christian argument based on Romans chapter 1, starting in verse 18. He has written one of the more powerful arguments against war in his well-received War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Random House, 2003 Chris Hedges, in his 2007 book, "I Don't Believe in Atheists," faults "new atheists" Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others with utopianism, which he describes as a dangerous legacy of both the Christian faith and the Enlightenment. 8 Atheists may not believe religious teachings, but they are quite informed about religion. “The bottom line for me is this. Chris Hedges, in his 2007 book, "I Don't Believe in Atheists," faults "new atheists" Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others with utopianism, which he describes as a dangerous legacy of both the Christian faith and the Enlightenment. I wouldn’t say that I actually know for a fact that they don’t exist. 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