Religion, Politics and the End of the World (3/9)

Sam Harris and Chris Hedges engage in a debate over the role that religion and politics play in Islamic extremism.

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[jmwooldridge60]

The Abrahamic religions are responsible for the concept of the individual? Tell that to Muslim women, who aren't allowed to be individuals. What about blacks under slavery, and even Western women up to a couple hundred years ago?

[afetherw8]

Wow, I kind of want to hate Hedges, but he's so boring, so lacking in charisma and rhetorical skill, that I just wind up feeling bad for him.

[orbital92hotmail]

Chris Hedges makes me want to kill myself.

[WolfgangBrozart]

Hedges is the only person arguing on the other side that I've had to skip through in any debate. And that's saying something since I've sat through William Lane Craig.

[woodbell67]

@SuperCorycory you misheard. He said "suicide bombing", as we understand it today I assume. 09:20

[cyberslick18]

@dvzqz87 Yes, you're right, I didn't watch all 9 videos, only this 30 seconds and made an angry comment.

[dvzqz87]

@dvzqz87 "in the universe but this is not irrational, it is non-rational. Faith allows us to transcend our mania for conclusions, a mania which is one of humanities most useless and sterile drives." - Hedges.

[dvzqz87]

"Faith is not in conflict with reason. Faith does not conflict with scientific truth, unless faith claims to express a scientific truth. Faith can neither be affirmed nor denied by scientific, historical, or philosophical truth. And here I think Sam confuses the irrational which he sees as a part of faith, with the non-rational. There is a reality which is not a product of rational deduction, it is not accounted for by strict rational discourse. There is a dimension to spiritual human existence"

[dvzqz87]

@cyberslick18 words of someone who watched the first 40 seconds of his speech and x'ed out of the window

[cyberslick18]

Chris Hedge's entire speech: Umm, err, umm, err, uh, ya know, err, umm.

Stick to writing Chris.

[allfitch84]

@bapyou Perhaps you should watch the video 'hitchens ends hedges career.' Hitchens basically back him into the corner he made for himself, then lays the hitch-slap on him haha It's almost one of those awkward moments where you feel bad, but at the same time so awesome you cannot look away lol

[allfitch84]

It laid the foundation for our civilizations? Apparently, no one before these religions had a civilization & no one survived. Does he not think about the Greeks? They had probably the biggest impact on the blue print of how future 'empires' would be built, much more so than those religions. Unless you mean foundation as in, the dark ages, witch hunts, inquisition, ethnic cleansing, the raping of children, slavery of men, oppression of women, then yeah, they certainly laid a foundation alright.