Truthdig.com brings Chris Hedges and Sam Harris together – Incredible debate

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070617_religion_politics_and_the_end_of_the_world/

An Incredible debate between two very well respected and well spoken men

Religion, Politics and the End of the World

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.[1] His most recent book, which he discussed on CSPAN‘s Booktv [2], is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009).[3]

Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American non-fiction writer, neuroscientist and proponent of scientific skepticism. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award,[1] and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism his first book attracted.

Read Chris Hedges’ opening statement and Sam Harris’ response.

There are links to the MP3′s recordings of the event(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), which are completely unedited as apposed to the video’s below which have been modified to shorten them up a little bit. What I am so blown away by with this debate is how I found myself siding with both arguments and even at the end I didn’t blatantly endorse one and condemn the arguments of the other. I found myself agreeing with points on both sides even when those points came at the expense of me disagreeing with the other side. A great great conversation about something we are going to no doubt see more and more in our society as religion’s decline happens faster and faster.

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