Tumbled Thoughts On American Muslim Life

Embracing Chris Hedges [?]

I have found the Muslim communities’ embracing of Chris Hedges to be a curious one. Not that I don’t find points of commonality with some of his writings, but I do find it curious, with his stances on theology (he dismisses the existence of angels) and the nature of religion, to be troublesome if not out of step with Islam itself:

“Religion is our finite, flawed and imperfect expression of the infinite.” - From I Don’t Believe In Atheists.

What I find so questionable about Hedges is that while he claims to be a proponent of religion, he seems to reduce religion to a purely human product. This, ironically, is not dissimilar from the atheists standpoint themselves. So, and correct me if I am wrong, it would seem that Hedges disagrees with like likes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, not the essence of the arguments, but in form or style.

And Now…

Christopher Hitchens shall know who indeed was crazy.

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