Hate speech against atheists!

Chris Hedges is a crazy Leftist journalist who has been a great critic of the "Christian Right". So you might think he would have a soft spot for atheists, right? Most Leftists seem to. But not Chris Hedges! Here is just a small excerpt from his comments on some prominent atheists:

"So you have, within these new athiests, a convergence, a political convergence with the Christian right who, supposedly, they've set themselves up against. If you look at the kinds of things that Christopher Hitchens writes and says about the Muslim world, it could be lifted from the most rabid sermon from a Christian fundamentalist.

So opponents of ALL religion are no good because Islam must be honored! The fact that Hitchens and Co. are scathing about BOTH Christianity and Islam is no good at all. Christian fundamentalism bad; Muslim fundamentalism good.

It's not really surprising. Leftists love their fellow haters among the Islamists. It is hate of the rest of us that is right! Not religion, not atheism, not anything else.

Note that the Muslim site from which the above is taken does not seem to have worked out how to use a spellchecker. I have not altered the way they spell "atheist".

Background on Hedges here

Hedges makes a great contrast to how Christians respond to atheists. Christians will certainly try to convert atheists but other than that their main response is to pray for them.