Society which is not exactly, i think, true. Just because, you know, your money says in god we trust doesnt mean that you are under siege. They have a far more literalistic reading of scripture than any literalist i know. Sam harris is quite famous for this. He really reads the scriptures in the most literalist sense, and then if he is confronted by people of faith who dont have the same literalist view of the scripture that he does, he simply says that theyre not really jews, theyre not really christians, theyre not really muslims because they dont take their scripture literally. And certainly, they have the same sense of sole access to the truth. That is the, fundamentally or i should say the defining characteristic of fundamentalism for many of these new atheists, particularly richard dawkins. A person of faith is not just wrong, hes stupid that anyone who disagrees with him is not just incorrect, but, you know, dumb. That religion itself is nothing more than pure evil. As Christopher Hitchens used to like to say. That religion is responsible for all the evil in the world and so, therefore, religion has to be excised from humanity to achieve peace and prosperity. As i reminded christopher hitch ps when he was alive, the most bestial acts of human destruction over the last hundred years, perhaps in all of human history, have been in the last hundred years, and they have all been in the name of unabashedly, avowing secular itself ideologies. Stoll lainism, maouism, communism, marx schism. Marxism. These are all secular ideologies, and indeed, in some cases theyre antireligious ideologies. And these are ideologies that have been responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people in the last hundred years. So religion doesnt have a monopoly op violence. Lets just not forget that. Host under the title another response to rezas diatribe against shirley, i did as the professor suggested and Googled Muslim statements against violence and found nothing. Guest can i use the word bs on tv . Host were cable. [laughter] guest really . You googled the phrase Muslim Statements against violence, and you didnt see the council for americanislamic relations, the Islamic Society for north america, the muslimbritish council, the grand mufti of iraq, the grand mufti of saudi arabia, the grand ayatollah in iraq . You didnt, you didnt hear the American Society for muslim advancement . None of those things came up in your Google Search . I think theres something wrong with your google. Host reza aslan has been our guest for the past three hours on booktvs in depth. No god but god, came out in 2005. Beyond fundamentalism originally called how to win a cosmic war came out in 2010. The international bestseller, zealot the life and times of jesus of nazareth, came out last year. Youve been watching booktv on cspan is a pleasure to be here with you today i really enjoyed your book. I love the opportunity to talk with people about how to protect their data and with so many modernday privacy issue is a lovely do with the book is so well researched and thoughtprovoking so i want to have a conversation about what people need to know and is there anything we can do about it . You gave me a little bit of hope. One of the things i thought was interesting was the nsa revelations. I wrote a little bit of that with my book that how consumers did not realize businesses collect data and their cooperation or coercion with the nsa. With that have compelled you to write the book . I have to inform people. Thank you so much for being with me today i am glad to hear you enjoyed the book. It was other factors that drove me. I have said in reporting 50 years and i started out at local and covering government you get the idea of unexperienced how policies and regulations impact average very kids and i remember years ago watching people who purchased property with hopes to build their dream home, to the zero local permit and selling office to request the right to build their homes on their properties and this certain county it was like environmentalist ground zero battleground it was so driven by environmental policy they did not want to build anything and one family came in with hopes to build on a 500,000 parcel of property they purchased a and the local zoning people deride their repeated the to the point they had no more appeals left and i remember the woman leaving in tears because now what is she going to do without property . That i am an American Lawyer just for fun and i was always laser did on issues like that but covering the local issues is that and having four children i worry about the future in the states of america. Youre absolutely right
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