{"id":1912,"date":"2008-12-03T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2008-12-07T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:47:34","slug":"a-excellent-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"An excellent discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>Chris Hedges&#8217; book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/4147530\" title=\"\">I don&#8217;t believe in atheists.<\/a> My copy has been pre-owned, as they say (I ordered from Powells, since it isn&#8217;t published in this country) by a believer in scientism, whose pencil annotations are most illuminating. The book grew out of a public debate with Hitchens (whom the author, in an an interview with Salon, dismissed as an Ann Coulter of the left) and Sam Harris; and it&#8217;s interesting to see the annotations of a true unbeliever who can&#8217;t see anything wrong with a faith in progress. I will have to write more, lots more, but this is the first book I have come across which sees the New Atheists as morally outrageous &ndash; which of course they are.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Two lovely quotes from the book, one Hedges; the second, apparently, from Ibsen<\/p>\n\n\t<blockquote>To turn away from God is harmless. Saints have been thing to do it for centuries. To turn away from sin is catastrophic.<\/blockquote>\n\n\t<p>and<\/p>\n\n\t<blockquote>To live is to war against the trolls.<\/blockquote>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>Chris Hedges&#8217; book I don&#8217;t believe in atheists. My copy has been pre-owned, as they say (I ordered from Powells, since it isn&#8217;t published in this country) by a believer in scientism, whose pencil annotations are most illuminating. The book &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1912\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}